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In vain did he fling away pa thetically even his leadership in a last hour press interview, attempt ing to drive home to Congress the great truth that the only basis for Jewish settlement in Palestine at present is that of “political parity with the Arabs, and that the insist ence upon a Jewish majority in Pales tine would be interpreted by the out side world as a desire to drive the Arabs from the country.” All was in vain. The waves of emotional extre mism were beating too high for rea son to penetrate and they blinded not only the vision, but also the common sense of a usually practical and com mon sense people. It was this extremism that was the essence of the Seventeenth Zionist Congress, revealing a new dangerous tendency toward reaction, a tendency hitherto practically unknown in mod ern Jewish social movements which, as a rule, ran more in the progres sive, and even radical, direction. From the very beginning, two parties bat tled for supremacy at the congress, and in the Zionist movement: the so- called Revisionists and Labour. Nomi nally, the Revisionists counted only 51 delegates, and Labour 80. But all the other parties at the congress, from the East-European clerical Mizrachi to the American Liberal followers of Justice Louis Brandeis, were permeat ed with Revisionism, and its spirit un doubtedly dominated the gathering and controlled its underlying mood, if not all of its decisions. All this can, perhaps, be very easily explained by the failures and disap pointments of Zionism during the last two years, but this did not make the senseless violence of Revisionism, its raging hatred, and its pitiful attempt to imitate the extreme reactionarism of present-day Europe and the less repellent. The fiery militaristic phrases; the bombastic boast that “we wish to mi litarise Jewish youth”; the brown shirts of Hitlerism, worn demonstra tively by the younger adherents, and the whole spirit of fierce, narrow, il liberal Nationalism deliberately fash ioned after the German and Italian Nationalist movements, and like them oozing hatred of opponents, especial ly of Labour—all that was so foreign to a gathering of Jews as to make an observer almost gasp. That Jewish Nationalism could so nearly in its development let loose such forces of enmity and reaction was never fore seen even by the most rabid oppon ents of Zionism. The extent of this extremism can be gauged from a persual of the more important Congress decisions. At a time when the Arab world is up in arms against Zionism because of its fear of Jewish domination, the Revi sionists, instead of pacifying these fears, insisted on increasing them by a restatement of the aims of Zionism as the “establishment of a Jewish Stiite in Palestine with a Jewish ma jority on both sides of the Jordan.” Only a small incident stood between the acceptance of this resolution by the majority of the Congress. But even though it was not carried, a dec laration by Dr. Weizmann that he was not in sympathy with a Jewish majority in Palestine, and that he favored parity with the Arabs, was also defeated and he lost his leader ship with it. War on the Arab world alone not being deemed sufficient, Congress flung another defiance to Great Brit ain. The British Administration in Palestine and the Colonial Office were denounced at the Congress in terms reminiscent of the old “Hun” atrocity campaigns when the War propaganda machines were working at full steam. The worst of it all was that all this, in accordance with the usual custom of Zionists, was spoken in the name of the whole Jewish peo ple, the bulk of whom not only have no quarrel with England, but consider Great Britain “the least anti-Jewish people in the world”. If ever extreme Zionism has revealed its true, non- Jewish character, and its remoteness from real Jewish interests, it is in this irresponsible campaign against Great Britain. But while these wars against the Arab and the British world were waged only on the platform, a more effective war was conducted against the Labour wing of the Zionist move ment and against Dr. Weizmann. La bour has been deprived of the control which it has exercised till now on Jewish labour immigration into Pal estine—a fact which may influence the selection of the entire future hu man material coming into Palestine. The decision favoring private enter prise and middle-class investment in Palestine was also intended as a blow to the present system of predomi nantly social effort and Labour en terprise. Most violent of all was the outburst of extremism at the Congress which brought about the termination of Dr. Weizmann’s leadership. The whole of the Congress seethed and revolved around this question, and it undoubt edly constituted the chief business of the gathering. The significance of the event lies not in the fact that a man who had led the Zionist movement for thirteen years, and has done for Zionism more than any other living person, has been removed from the leadership. Things like these have hap pened, and will happen as long as there are social movements. What is more significant and what caused all the storms, deadlocks and most of the violent outbursts at the Congress, is that the Zionist ship dropped its old pilot at the most critical moment, without having anyone else to put in his place at the wheel. For the fact is that the Zionist movement has not produced another personality of Dr. Weizmann’s caliber able to lead it, and to command the respect and good will (Please turn to Page 18) OMPANY DISTRICT OFF1U MORTGAGE GUARANTEE BUILDING ATLANTA L. E. HOLLOWAY & CO. Oranges — Grapefruit Grapes — \\ atermelonn 14 A., B. C. Produce Place MAIN 1988 ATLANTA. GEORGIA Thomas F. Rybert Printing Co. 311 EDGE WOOD AYE., S. E. JArkson 3317 ATLANTA U - DRIVE - IT CO., Inc. 230 PEACHTREE WA. 6257 ATLANTA ;♦ * * * * * * * * * * ❖ * ❖ * * * * * * * * ^ Phone Walnut O' A-No-1 Mechanics When You Have 1 hat Wreck, Just Call E. RUSH WE FIX ’EM ALL AUTO PAINTING. BOD' AND fender work 5 7 Harris Street. N. v ATLANTA. 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