sionist Party to approve the creation of an Independent Zionist Organization, rivalling the present Zionist Organization, was set today for May 19 by the World Revisionist Executive, an official announcement says.
The projected Independent Zionist Organization will call a constituent Congress for December, 1935. The Congress will be called on the basis of “a Jewish State and Herzlian Shekel.”
All members of the organizations affiliated with the Revisionist Party will be called to participate in the plebiscite. The outcome of the plebiscite is considered by the Revisionist Executive as certain to be a vote of confidence in its action and its plans.
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