The Congress Court, a judiciary body of the Zionist Congress was called upon to act as a court of honor in personal disputes between well-known European members of the Zionist Organization.
Two disputes were submitted to the court. One involved a public controversy between Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the League of Zionist Revisionists, now a resident of Jerusalem, and Dr. Marco Romano of Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. Romano issued a pamphlet in which he charged the Zionist Revisionists, the extreme opposition group in the Zionist movement, with advocating “the expulsion by force of the Arabs from Palestine.” Jabotinsky complained that the pamphlet contained personal libel against him.
The second dispute is between Isaac Gruenbaum, Zionist opposition leader in Poland, and Dr. Leon Reich, both members of the Polish parliament. Personal insults were alleged by both during the recent political campaign in Poland in which the Zionist party took an active part.
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