Her explicit involvement in the world socialist movement.
" Since I was the most junior member of our delegation ( which included Ben-Gurion and Ben Zvi ) , I had time to sightsee and to listen for hours to the speeches of famous socilists whom I had, of course, never seen before - men like Arhur Henderson, the British Labor Party leader, who was president of the Socialist International,or Leon Blum, who became France's first socialist and first Jewish premier. Henderson had just agreed to organize a League for Labour Palestine , for which he came under bitter attack from the Jewish non-Zionist socialists - of all people -and as far as we were concerned , the atmosphere was very charged. "
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