The congress of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists concluded its six day sessions with the adoption of a number of resolutions relative to internal policy and relationiship to the World Zionist Organization.
By a vote of 82 to 24, the congress endorsed the decision reached at the Revisionist conference in Calais, which relegates to the individual Revisionist the right to decide whether or not to pay the shekel to the Zionist organization.
At the same time, in the light of the decision of the Actions Committee that members of all Zionist groups within the organization are subject to the discipline of the World Zionist Organization, the congress went on record as giving the Revisionist Union priority in the disciplining of its members.
An official declaration was also entered in the minutes of the congress taking the stand that the resolution adopted by the Actions Committee, in connection with the admission of the Revisionists as a separate union, that existing regulations preclude individual Zionists and Zionist groups from negotiating with governments or the League of Nations and from conducting political work without the consent of the Executive, are not binding upon Revisionist shekel payers. This stand was taken on the ground that the Actions Committee’s resolution is contrary to the Zionist organization’s constitution and Zionist statutes.
A motion by Vladimir Jabotinsky was adopted which empowers the incoming Executive to decide whether or not a petition embodying the Revisionist demands with regard to Palestine is to be drawn up and whether it is to be addressed to the governments of various lands and to the League of Nations.
An executive committee of five was elected. Robert Lichtheim, target of controversy and attack, particularly on the part of the Palestine Delegation, was not re-elected to the new Executive. The membership of the Executive now include Vladimir Jabotinsky, Meier Grossman, S. Soskin, Robert Stricker and M. Machover.
Vladimir Jabotinsky and Meier Grossman, president and vice-president of the Revisionist Organization, will take up residence in Geneva in February.
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