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Revisionist Parley Acclaims Decision on Zionist Congress

April 8, 1935
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whole of the Zionist movement, and this new fact will have to be faced both by Jewry and by the official outer world.

“This is ultimate,” Mr. Jabotinsky’s statement concludes.

PARLEY HERE ACCLAIMS PARIS DECISION

The second day’s sessions of the national conference of the Zionist Revisionist Organization of America, which is being held at the Hotel Edison with more than 200 delegates and alternates participating, received with enthusiastic acclaim yesterday an announcement concerning instructions by the World Executive that its representatives walk out on the deliberations of the Zionist Actions Committee at Jerusalem.

The announcement was made by Vladimir Jabotinsky, president of the World Union of Zionist Revision. He said the order issued in Paris told the Revisionist delegeates to leave the meeting of the Actions Committee if the proposals of the Revisionists for a round-table conference were rejected and, in that eventuality, to declare that the Revisionists will not have anything to do with the next Zionist Congress, scheduled for August.

CANADIANS ATTEND

The opening session of the conference, which attracted delegates from as far west as Omaha, Neb., and from Toronto, Ont., and Montreal, Que., was held Saturday evening and ran into the early hours of yesterday morning.

Addresses were delivered by Jabotinsky, whose remarks took almost three hours, Rabbi Louis Isaac Newman, Rabbi Wolf Gold, Jacob de Haas and Elias Ginsburg, chairman of the central committee of the organization.

Jabotinsky excoriated the World Zionist Organization and the Actions Committee in his speech, saying:

“Those at the helm of the World Zionist Organization do not want peace in Zionism.”

He assailed the Actions Committee for its ratification of a transfer agreement with Nazi Germany, asserting this sanction gave the stamp of approval to a flagrant breach in the boycott movement.

“The Revisionists cannot agree,” Mr. Jabotinsky said. “The Revisionists will fight the boycott to the last. It must be enforced.”

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise came in for harsh words from Rabbi Newman and Mrs. Ginsburg, the latter taking Dr. Wise up on a recent declaration that Jabotinsky and the Revisionists advocate the expulsion of the Arabs from Palestine.

Yesterday William B. Ziff expressed a hope in an address that the present critical international situation in Europe may have desirable results for the Jews who place their faith in the concept of a national homeland in Palestine.

Among the resolutions in the hands of a committee last evening and generally expected to be adopted when reported out were declarations condemning Nazi Germany, expressing support of the boycott, criticizing its conduct in the United States, asking Great Britain to facilitate realizaton of the homeland ambition in Palestine and urging institution of a petition drive enlisting non-Jewish cooperation to make the Mandatory Power change its stand.

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