The oft-repeated threat of the Zionist Revisionists that they would secede from the World Zionist Organization in the event that their demands were not met by the Zionist Congress today created a breach in the ranks of the Revisionist party when Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the party, took a six months leave of absence because of serious differences within the party.
The differences are the result of a varying attitude among the Revisionists on the question of whether or not they should remain within the Zionist Organization, and if they do remain, to what extent they will participate in the work of the Organization. In an endeavor to settle this question the Revisionists are planning to convoke a world Revisionist conference in December. At this conference the possible return of Jabotinsky to the leadership of the party he founded in 1925 will also be decided.
The bloc of 52 Revisionist delegates kept the Zionist Congress which has just concluded agog throughout its 15 days of sessions by their oppositionist tactics. On one occasion they walked out of the Congress hall en masse led by Jabotinsky when the Congress refused to permit one of their minority resolutions to be voted upon.
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