As Vladimir Jabotinsky, world Revisionist leader, stepped off the gangplank of the S.S. Manhattan Friday, hero-worshipping young Brith Trumpeldorites rushed up to him and kissed his hand.
“Tel Hai!” The Brith Trumpeldor greeting, a memorial to the death of Joseph Trumpeldor during his defense of the Galilee colony, rang through the air — the first words Jabotinsky heard after he had stepped onto American soil.
More than 100 members of Brith Trumpeldor and of YZRO, the Youth Zionist Revisionist Organization, were at the pier to
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