Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...outside distractions, however, was to make the sessions of the Congress more harmonious than was expected, for there is a marked difference of opinion among Zionists as to the best course to pursue, and it was thought that a break might occur. On the one hand was Dr. Chain Weizmann, onetime President of the World Zionist Organization, who has the backing of American Jewry. His program has been for colonization of Palestine with sound business or "capitalistic" methods. Opposed to him was a fiery Jewish Fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, inhabitant of Paris. He wants all the land of Palestine...
Owing to this opposition, Dr. Weizmann was not reelected, but the Congress remained favorable to colonization without communistic confiscation...
...Nahum Sokolov, member of the Executive Committee, was chosen to succeed Dr. Weizmann as President...
Despite the vigorous if disorganized efforts of these rival factions to defeat him, the reelection of Weizmann seems highly probable...