Zionists (cont.J

Zionism gave the long distance telephone operators at Chatham, Mass., an unusual amount of switchboard plugging last week. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court had just established himself in his summer home there, on the eve of the Zionist Organization of America's convention in Cleveland. The delegates at Cleveland were pondering and discussing his offer to return to active Zionism with his cohorts if the current regime headed by Louis Lipsky were ousted (TIME, July 7).

As Cleveland pondered. Justice Brandeis surprised the convention with this conciliatory message:

"Added years make it impossible for me to assume now the official responsibilities of leadership as I did prior to 1921, but I am ready now. as then, to serve the cause. Necessarily the service to be rendered must be limited in scope to advising from time to time when requested on questions of major policy. Such service I am now rendering through Mr. [Felix M.] Warburg to the Jewish Agency./- Such service I can render also to the Z. O. A. In my opinion, it will be far more effective if rendered to an administration formed on the general lines of [my] memorandum. . . ."

This change of front--from ultimatum to suggestion--caused the lengthy telephonings to Chatham. If holding the telephone receiver for long periods discomforted Justice Brandeis, he probably did not mind. For out of the calls resulted a compromise largely in his own terms and a regime which will guide U. S. Zionism until the next convention. Henceforth, provided no organization quarrels intervene, Zionist affairs in the U. S. will be controlled by 18 chiefs-- twelve of them Brandeisites, six of them Lipskyites. Assisting them will be an executive committee of 40 (divided equally between the Brandeis and Lipsky factions) and a national advisory council of 150 (100 elected by the convention, 50 chosen by the Brandeis group). The 18 chiefs:

Brandeisites

Jacob de Haas, Mrs. Edward Jacobs,

Manhattan Manhattan

Julian William Mack, Abraham Tulin,

Manhattan Manhattan

Samuel J. Rosensohn, Emanuel Neumann,

Manhattan Manhattan

Louis Israel Newman, Robert Szold,

San Francisco Manhattan

Abba Hillel Silver, Stephen Samuel Wise,

Cleveland Manhattan

Nathan Ratnoff, Israel Brodie,

Manhattan Baltimore

Lipskyites

Louis Lipsky. James G. Heller,

Manhattan Cincinnati

Abraham Goldberg, William M. Lewis,

The Bronx Philadelphia

Morris Rothenberg, Nelson Ruttenberg,

Manhattan Manhattan

/-Formed last year by Zionists and non-Zionists, to consolidate all efforts for the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.

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