The advance guard of delegates to the eighteenth World Zionist Congress which opens here August 21 at the Lucerno hall, is gradually assembling here although none of the most prominent participants in the Congress is yet on the scene. They are expected here this week-end to aid in completing the preparations for the congress which are being pushed now with all speed.
After the opening session, the Congress sessions will be held in the Hall of the Prague City Council. An innovation at this congress will be the publication, in Hebrew, of a daily record of events in addition to the daily record printed in German, the tongue customarily employed in the Congress deliberations.
Approximately three hundred delegates will be present at the congress. The Labor element in the Zionist ranks is expected to have about forty percent of the delegates.
The national and municipal authorities, it is reported, are taking steps to prevent provocative acts by Nazi agitators from Germany who, it is believed, are planning to try to incite the population of the city against the Jewish assembly in order to embarrass the Czechoslovakian Government which has determinedly fought all Nazi propaganda attempts in this country.
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