Basle Congress Elections Are Strong Contested in Many Countries

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A heated contest for supremacy at the forthcoming Fifteenth Zionist Congress which will open on August 30th at Basle, marks the election of delegates which is now taking place in many countries, to the international Zionist gathering which meets once in two years.

Reports received at the Zionist headquarters here from many European countries, Palestine, and several Zionist districts in England, show that increased interest in the question of representation at the Zionist Congress is manifested in all factions of the Zionist movement. Even the so-called general Zionists. who usually voted as a bloc. in Germany and Czechoslovakia, are divided into left and center groups. The Zionist Revisionists are everywhere putting up their own lists. The Revisionists in England have for the first time submitted their own list of delegates. The radical Zionists, the Mizrachi, the Poale Zion and the Zaire Zion, are particularly active in the various countries where elections are taking place.

In many countries, however, the list supporting the Weizmann administration occupies a leading position.