As the final steps toward the consummation of the Jewish Agency plan are being made with the arrival of the American non-Zionist leaders. Vladimir Jabotinsky. leader of the Zionist Revisionists who has consistently opposed the formation of the Agency under the Weizmann plan, reasserted his position at a large mass meeting held Thursday night at Memorial Hall.
Mr. Jabotinsky warned against the admission of professed non-Zionists into the Jewish Agency as the factor controlling the political fate of the Zionist movement. He suggested that the participation of the non-Zionists be limited only to the economic side of the problem and that for that purpose a two-chamber Agency be formed.
“A misunderstanding prevails that the mandate obliges Zionists to introduce the non-Zionists into the Agency,” he stated. “The mandate only requires non-Zionists’ cooperation, not their joining the Agency. The non-Zionists would be welcomed to economic cooperation, but the political responsibility must remain with the Zionist Congress.”
Mr. Jabotinsky suggested the establishment of a Supreme Economic Council, comprising Zionists and non-Zionists, or a two-chamber Agency, one dealing with finance nad constructive work and the other the Zionist chamber, entitled to advise the government and the League of Nations on all matters affecting the Jewish national home in Palestine.
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