Mrs. Archibald Silverman, a vice-president of the Hadassah, Women’s Zionist Organization, yesterday announced her resignation from that office. Her step followed a meeting on Sunday of the National Board of Hadassah which adopted a resolution of “no confidence” in the present Zionist Administration and made other decisions which Mrs. Silverman characterized as a “violation” of Hadassah’s purpose.
Mrs. Silverman, who has been identified with the Zionist movement in America for twenty-two years, said in her letter of resignation, which was addressed to Mrs. Irma Lindheim, president of Hadassah: “I am compelled by the course which events have taken in the Hadassah Organization to tender my resignation as a vice president of the organization.
“I am convinced that the action recently taken at the meeting of the National Board on April 22, which had been gradually prepared through the efforts of Hadassah leaders, is in distinct and conscious violation of the purpose for which Hadassah has been organized and the trust which has been reposed in this organization by the Zionists in America.
“I believe that in addition to their unconstitutionality these acts have been conceived and carried out in a spirit of such bitterness and such personal animosity as to introduce into Zionist ranks a spirit of rancor and hatred unbecoming to Jews and to Zionists, and is inconsistent with an organization which has appealed to the country on grounds of womanly interest in the social welfare problems of Palestine.”
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