Religion: Zionists

In Vienna, the city where lie the bones of Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talkĀ—the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts:

1) The impatience of the Jewry of Poland with his policy of making haste slowly in the business of restoring Palestine...

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