Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, national president of Hadassah, women’s Zionist organization and a leading figure in the present Zionist controversy, sailed on the steamer Caronio on Friday night for Europe where she is expected to remain until the fall. The Hadassah convention will take place in Pittsburgh on June 27, it was officially announced.
In a statement to the representative of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin,” Mrs. Szold, secretary of the organization, declared: “Mrs. Lindheim has gone abroad on the advice of her physician she having suffered a nervous breakdown almost immediately following her husband’s death, due to the fact that after the shock she persisted in her work for the United Palestine Appeal.
“Following the meeting of the National Board of Hadassah on April 21, Mrs. Lindheim was completely prostrated,” Mrs. Szold declared. “Her doctor ordered her to discontinue her work for six months, saying it would be absolutely suicide for her to attend the Zionist convention. When she presented this angle to the National Board, we, of course, recognized the seriousness of the situation. Mrs. Lindheim expects to return in the fall when she hopes to resume her work.”
Asked whether Mrs. Lindheim would be a candidate for reelection as Hadassah’s national president, Mrs. Szold said that depended on the convention. Mrs. Lindheim had not indicated that she would not accept re-election, she stated.
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