Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 35

not been fulfilled in any single particular. The resolutions on discipline, which the General Council had adopted at the time, were shortly afterwards transgressed by the Revisionist Conference in Vienna. This circumstance led to the well-known proceedings of the Court of Honour against the Separate Union, which ended on January 5th, 1933, with the verdict whereby the rights of the Separate Union were temporarily suspended and its dissolution recommended to the Executive. The Executive hesitated for a long time before agreeing to the dissolution. It hoped that the Revisionists who had remained true to the Organisation would requite the numerous proofs of leniency and readiness to meet them half-way by turning their backs on the destructive and disintegrating tendencies of an undisciplined and arbitrary movement, and taking their places within the Zionist Organisation, which is founded on a common will and cemented by loyalty. In this hope, however, the Executive was completely disappointed. Opposition towards the Zionist Organisation reached its peak in the open attempt to undermine the authority and the unity of the Organisation and to cross its policy by means of the petition movement. 3. In actual fact the Separate Union, which, in accordance with the - fundamental conceptions of the Zionist constitution, should have formed an integral part of the Organisation, never existed. Whatever the intentions of the advocates of its recognition by the General Council may have been, the Separate Union was in fact only a forrnula on paper, the sole object of which was to enable the World Union of Zionist-Revisionists, which desired to lead an existence independent of the Zionist Organisation, to enjoy through part of its members the rights within the Organisation of which it intended to make use. The Separate Union had neither its own membership, nor its own federations or territorial groups, but only directing bodies which, in virtue of internal arrangements to which the Zionist organs were not a party, were intimately connected with the structure of the World Union of Zionist-Revisionists. 4. The invertebrate and shadowy existence of the Separate Union became strikingly evident when, first in March, 1933, and then at the 18th Congress, after the split that took place among the Revisionists, the two rival Revisionist parties, namely the " World Union " as well as the " democratic Revisionists," who afterwards constituted themselves as the " Jewish State Party," disputed with one another as to which was entitled to exercise the rights of the Separate Union. •If the Separate Union, like other similar bodies, had its own membership and organisation, such a question could never have arisen; or if it had, it would have been decided by vote of the members. 5. The confusion which the fictitious existence of the Separate Union caused within the Zionist Organisation brought about various complications in the sphere of organisation, and had 35