The British issue the Passfield White Paper in 1930. It calls for severely limiting land sales and Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Chaim Weizmann pays the price at the next Zionist Congress, where a vote of censure forces him from the presidency of the World Zionist Organization.
A few years later, the rise of Hitler will restore Weizmann to his leadership position but he is helpless to stop the approaching destruction of European Jewry.
Photo credit: The Jabotinsky Institute of Israel
