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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...
Then suddenly, the attacks on Dr. Weizmann's administration from the fiery Russo-Jewish-Parisian swashbuckler, Jabotinsky, became so bitter that the Weizmann group insisted on a special rate of confidence in their leader with a view of his reelection. But two-thirds of the delegates refused to vote. Confusion spread. Dr. Weizmann stung by the ingratitude of Jewry, resigned, refused reelection. Confusion was confounded...
...journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support of U. S. and British Jews. In political confusion, he was lost...
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...