Objection to the platform presented by the National Board of Hadassah, for consideration by the Chapters, was made by the San Francisco Chapter of Hadassah at its annual meeting here.
The resolution which was adopted declared that “all necessary reforms should be harmoniously effected within the Zionist Organization through the convention”.
The San Francisco Hadassah delegates to the convention and alternates or proxies were instructed to vote in accordance with the spirit of the above resolution.
Mrs. Robert Szold, secretary of Hadassah, in a communication to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, took exception to the statement made in the issue of June 1 that Samuel Untermeyer had declined to take the case of Hadassah in its conflict with the Zionist Organization of America, concerning the ruling on the fiscal year of membership dues.
Mrs. Szold made public excerpts from a letter she received from Mr. Untermeyer following the publication of the news item in the Bulletin. Declaring that the information that he had declined to take the case is untrue, Mr. Untermeyer wrote: “I believe, on the contrary, that Hadassah has a just grievance and that the action of the Zionist Organization is discreditable and unlawful. Its effect is to disfranchise all members in good standing who paid their annual dues between July and December last year, although they then paid the full year’s dues. There would have been no objection to the delegates to the Zionist Convention being elected on the same basis.
“I deeply regret this internal dissension, which is bound to break forth at the convention and to further injure the cause in which all of us are so deeply concerned, and can well understand why your great patriotic body should be unwilling to keep silent under such flagrant injustice.
“Before Dr. Weizmann sailed I spoke to him twice on the subject and gathered from him that the difficulty has been adjusted by allowing your organization the rights to which it is entitled. . .”
The statement made in the news item referred to by Mrs. Szold and Mr. Untermeyer was based on information given out at Zionist headquarters.
Succeeding Sidney R. Traub, who resigned some time ago, Edwin L. Kurland has been appointed Assistant City Sollcitor of Baltimore. Mr. Kurland assumed his duties June 1.
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