Thirty-six members of the administrative committee of the Zionist Organization of America, and a number of other active members of the organization in thirty states, have addressed a telegram to the American Zionist Emergency Council and to Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the ZEA, asking for the restoration to Zionist leadership of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and for settlement of the dispute within the Zionist ranks in the United States, it was announced here today.
The telegram expressed the feeling of uneasimess prevailing among some Zionist leaders throughout the country in connection with the present political situation and asked for a “militants policy”. “We are greatly disturbed over the remarks made by prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt with regard to Palestine; Zionists received these remarks with a feeling of great disappointment,” the telegram said, emphasizing that the Present rift in the American Ziouist movement may spell damger for the entire Zionist cause.
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