out consultation with the leaders of the Administration, moved a resolution from the floor of the convention, that the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress be instructed to vote for Dr. Weizmann as the next president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
“Mr. Lipsky, one of Dr. Weizmann’s ardent admirers, who was in the chair at the time, ruled that the statutes of the World Zionist Organization prohibited the instruction of delegates, and he did his utmost to restrain the delegates from voting on the resolution offered by Mr. Silverman, pointing out that the Convention had already adopted a resolution in favor of a coalition Executive in which it was hoped Dr. Weizmann would take his place, and that that resolution expressed the unanimous desire of the convention with respect to the coming world leadership. Such, however, was the enthusiasm of the Convention for Dr. Weizmann that despite the restraint exercised by the presiding officer, the resolution offered by Mr. Silverman was adopted by a considerable majority, thus giving additional evidence of the sentiments of the vast majority of the Convention with respect to the restoration of Dr. Weizmann to the leadership of the World Zionist movement.
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“Mr. Szold’s attempt to make it appear that a campaign was made in support of the Weizmann candidacy which failed, is glaringly inaccurate and is only another manifestation of an intransigent attitude aiming to exclude Dr. Weizmann from any part in Zionist leadership, that is deeply resented by the overwhelming majority of American Zionists as of Jews generally. Dr. Weizmann did not by word or action give the slightest encouragement either to the resolution favoring a coalition Executive or to the resolution calling upon the delegates to the Congress to vote for his reelection to the presidency.
“Mr. Szold’s attack upon Dr. Weizmann under the circumstances was wholly uncalled for and is to be deeply deplored. It would be well for the Zionist movement if the example of loyalty set by Dr. Weizmann who travels to the far corners of the world, raising funds which enable his successors in office to carry on their labors, were emulated by Dr. Weizmann’s critics.”
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