Agency’s Scrapping Visioned by Zionist Leaders at Zurich

THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE, EIGHT-YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION COMPROMISING ZIONISTS AND NON-ZIONISTS IN EQUAL NUMBER AND RECOGNIZED BY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AS REPRESENTING THE JEWS IN PALESTINE AFFAIRS, WILL BE SCRAPPED AFTER THE MEETING OF ITS COUNCIL THIS WEEK, ZIONIST LEADERS PREDICTED TODAY.

CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO ELEMENTS IN THE AGENCY WAS SHARPENED BY THE EXPECTED OPPOSITION OF AMERICAN NON-ZIONIST JEWISH LEADERS TO THE PROPOSED PARTITION OF PALESTINE DESPITE THE RESOLUTION OF THE WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS AUTHORIZING NEGOTIATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN ON ESTABLISHING A JEWISH STATE.

ZIONIST CHIEFTAINS, SEEKING TO AVOID A SPLIT, BUT ALSO TRYING TO PREVENT THE AMERICAN NON-ZIONISTS, WHO ARE LED BY FELIX M. WARBURG, FROM JOINING FORCES WITH THE ZIONIST ANTI-PARTITION MINORITY TO OVERRULE THE ZIONIST CONGRESS DECISION, SUGGESTED THREE POSSIBLE EVENTUALITIES:

1. ONLY DELEGATES WHO VOTED FOR THE CONGRESS DECISION FAVORING NEGOTIATIONS WITH BRITAIN WILL BE NAMED TO REPRESENT THE ZIONIST CONGRESS AT THE JEWISH AGENCY COUNCIL SESSION.

2. ALL ZIONIST DELEGATES TO THE JEWISH AGENCY WILL VOTE IN A BLOC, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE ZIONIST CONGRESS, AND WILL SUPPORT THE CONGRESS RESOLUTION.

3. THE ZIONISTS WILL ABSTAIN FROM THE PARTITION DEBATE AT THE AGENCY MEETING LEAVING THE NON-ZIONISTS TO FORMULATE THEIR OWN RESOLUTION.

THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE WAS BELIEVED THE MOST LIKELY TO BE ADOPTED. SOME ZIONIST CONGRESS LEADERS SAID THEY WERE READY TO CONTINUE THE JEWISH AGENCY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN NON-ZIONISTS SINCE THERE WERE PLENTY OF EUROPEAN NON-ZIONISTS REMAINING.

THE JEWISH AGENCY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1929 UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF LOUIS MARSHALL, LATE NEW YORK JEWISH LEADER, BY AUTHORIZATION OF THE LEAGUE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE WHICH GRANTS THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION THE RIGHT TO OBTAIN COOPERATION OF NON-ZIONISTS.