The World Executive of the Zionist Revisionist Party, which has its headquarters here, today issued an official announcement that the Revisionists will not participate in the next Zionist Congress in August.
Simultaneously, the Revisionist Executive ordered its representatives at the Zionist Actions Committee, which is now in session in Palestine, to leave the committee’s sessions.
These steps were taken because “the proposals for peace agreed upon between Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionists, and David Ben-Gurion, the leader of the Palestine Laborites, were rejected by the Laborite plebiscite in Palestine,” the announcement says.
ISSUE NOW CLEAR, JABOTINSKY DECLARES
Asked to comment on the decision of the Revisionist Executive, Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionists, made the following statement to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, outlining conditions under which peace may still be reached in the Zionist Organization:
“The issue before Zionism is now perfectly clear,” Mr. Jabotinsky declared. “The political regime of Palestine must immediately be adapted to the needs of Jewish mass immigration, and that means agrarian reforms, opening of Transjordan, intensest protection of local production, and efficient security. Without these reforms the present unprecedented effort of the Jewish people will be frustrated and prosperity will end in failure.
READY TO COOPERATE
“We therefore hold that a worldwide decisive political offensive must be made now. If the other parties agree to it, we are ready to cooperate, and the question of unity of discipline will settle itself, and Zionism will be reunited.
“If they do not agree, we will carry out the petition movement alone; and in that case we have no business with the Zionist Congress. This will mean that the Congress no longer represents the
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