Word: revisionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Stern Group and the Irgun Zevai Leumi, whose single aim to rid Palestine of the British is almost pathological, are offshoots of the Revisionist Party, a non-Zionist organization that split from the world movement in the 1920's. They are responsible to no one. The Irgun, larger of the two, "specializes" in sabotage. The Stern Group, an outfit of only a few hundred, are masters at assassination...
...Council President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48 explained two weeks ago, elections of new members as provided in the current rules was necessary in spite of "revisionist" criticism of the constitution in order to supply the group with sufficient manpower to carry out an ambitious program of activities and investigations...
...guarantees to which Considine referred had been secured by an evening of collective bargaining between the two groups. Fearful of having their suggestions discarded or overruled once they dissolved themselves and accepted posts as individuals in the Council committee, the members of the revisionist body queried Weld continuously to ensure an equal status in the new Council group...
Replying to the Revisionist charges of "undemocratic" election procedures, Council president Levin H. Campbell '48, in a statement made last night, asserted that "the Council does not intend to limp along for a month or more, leaving undone much that is of real importance to the welfare of the student body...
...said he hoped the joint meeting with Raymond J. Considine's revisionist group could be held early next week and expressed the hope the conclave would be successful. I can find no essential difference in the positions of the two groups, nor grounds for any sort of dispute," he added...