Dr. Chaim Weizmann told a representative of the “Times” he would li### as President the Zionist Organization because of “health considerations,” ###ding that this was the only reason for his contemplating retire###. The Zionist leader explained, however, that he could not take this step constitutionally before the Zionist Congress in July.
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