A third group calling itself the “Independents” has emerged in the General Zionist movement in an attempt to reunite the World Confederation of General Zionists which has been split since last week on the representation to be allocated in the Confederation to the members of Israel’s General Zionist Party.
A spokesman for the new group said that it had allied itself with the delegates led by Dr. Israel Goldstein, American Zionist leader who is chairman of the Confederation, on the basis of a compromise agreement under which the Israeli centrists would receive 25 seats in the Confederation. The so-called “deviationist” group, led by American Zionists Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Dr. Emanuel Neumann and Benjamin Browdy, is demanding 60 seats for the Israelis.
Dr. Neumann, speaking for his group, said that he does not have the complete details of the compromise, but he has heard that it contains “too many qualifications” to make it valid.
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