Menu JTA Search  J. D. B. News Letter  Now no one will be able
to say the Zionist leadership does not submit to discipline.  It
was a bitter pill but it had to be swallowed.  Palestine was
placed above personalities.  Thus in effect did some of the men
who have stood at the helm of the Zionist movement in this
country during the past nine years characterize for this
correspondent, their part in the drama called the Thirty-Third
Annual Convention of the Zionist Organization of America,
brought to a close after three hectic days of patient waiting on
the part of the delegates and bargaining, bickering, pleading
and submitting on the part of the helmsmen.  By common consent
it was an extraordinary convention replete in dramatic moments
though most instances that would lend themselves to dramatic
effect were dissipated.  If welding together the element in
American Zionism which has been more or less on the outside
since 1921 with those who have conducted the affairs of the
Zionist Organization since then, was the