The Zionist Revisionists meeting here for their fourth world conference have decided to conduct their own political activities independently of the Zionist Organization or the Jewish Agency. particularly in pleading the Zionist cause before governments and statesmen. This was disclosed by Dr. Robert Lichtheim in an hour’s speech yesterday in which he outlined the Revisionists’ attitude toward the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
Dr. Lichtheim pointed out that although the Revisionists are still in the Zionist Organization “we nevertheless reserve for ourselves the right of independent action whenever we see that it is useful and necessary because we do not recognize either the Zionist Organization or the Jewish Agency as institutions able to judge what is good and what is harmful for political Zionism.”
Devoting most of his address to bitter attacks against Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency and of the world Zionist Organization, and the Zionist Executive, Dr. Lichtheim declared that “not only the Zionist Executive but also the Jewish Agency have proved bankrupt. The Jewish Agency gave no idea of a new plan. It is a bluff and a swindle when people try to give assurances that the Jewish Agency has done something.”
Dr. Lichtheim pointed out that while most Revisionists do not consider entering the Jewish Agency they are, however, ready to accept funds for Palestine from the non-Zionists who are the leaders of the Jewish Agency. In this connection he said that “these non-Zionists are less to be blamed than our Zionist Executive which agreed to the form of the Jewish Agency.”
At the same time Dr. Lichtheim mildly criticized Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency, saying that Mr. Warburg is “responsible for supporting Dr. Judah L. Magnes and the Brith Shalom’s policy of compromise with the Arabs.”
The morning session listened to a report from the executive of the Union of Zionist Revisionists which was read by Oscar Rabinovitch of London. The report showed that the Revisionists now have 30,000 members. Mordecai Danzis, American newspaperman and only American delegate to the conference, was elected to the praesidium. Dr. S. E. Soskin was the day’s chairman.
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