Members of the Zionist Organization of America and of Hadassah will vote June 23 for a united slate of candidates for designation as delegates to the forthcoming World Zionist Congress.
An agreement to this effect was approved by the administrative committee of the Zionist Organization of America at a meeting Sunday afternoon at the Hotel Astor.
According to the arrangement, Hadassah will put up fifty per cent of the delegates for the joint ticket, with members of both organizations voting for the list as a whole. Both bodies are part of the General Zionists.
NEWMAN OBJECTS
The session at the Astor was thrown into turmoil when Rabbi Louis I. Newman, leader of Group “B,” charged the Z. O. A. was “playing a game” with Hadassah, was stepping into a trap of the Histadruth “oligarchy” and had “raised up a golem.” Dr. Newman is a member of the administrative committee.
The rabbi was frequently heckled and interrupted during his remarks, which fell on hostile ears because of a statement he issued last week characterizing the plat-form adopted by the administrative committee for the American delegation to the August parley as “inadequate, deceptive and insincere.”
Among those present at the Astor were Mrs. Rose Jacobs, president of Hadassah, and Prof. Norman Bentwich, associate of James G. McDonald, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Prof. Bentwich spoke briefly, saying that while he doubted that Palestine could be built up as the Jewish national homeland if the profit motive prevails, the effort can be successful if pursued from the national approach.
Other speakers included Morris Rothenberg, president of the Z. O. A., who acted as chairman; Morris Margulies, secretary; Abraham Goldberg, Dr. S. Margoshes and Jacob Fishman.
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