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...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...
...impatience of the Jewry of Poland with his policy of making haste slowly in the business of restoring Palestine to the Jews and the Jews to Palestine. The economic policy of Poland has driven thousands of Jews to look for new homes. Weizmann has not yet organized Palestine to receive them...
...militant Zionists of Paris, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, enfant terrible of the movement, founder of the Jewish Legion. Jabotinsky strongly disapproves of Weizmann's alleged acquiescence in British attempts to whittle down the Zionist pledge...
...party of Jerusalem, led by the so-called "iron man," Menahem Ussishkin, a former colleague of Weizmann...
Despite the vigorous if disorganized efforts of these rival factions to defeat him, the reelection of Weizmann seems highly probable...