British Jewry in as far as it is represented in the Board of Jewish Deputies at its monthly session Sunday went on record as favoring speedy action for the organization of the extended Jewish Agency for Palestine, which is to be created under the agreement between Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Louis Marshall.
The Board decided to take upon itself the initiative of convening a representative Anglo-Jewish conference where arrangements will be completed for the appointment of representatives of the Anglo-Jewish community on the governing body of the extended Jewish Agency. Twelve delegates representing the Board of Jewish Deputies will be appointed to be the Board’s spokesmen at the forthcoming conference, Mr. D’Avigor Goldsmid, chairman of the Board, stated.
The Board adopted the recommendation of its Law and Parliamentary Committee concerning the Jewish Agency, acting on the invitation of the Zionist Executive, to take the initiative in convening the conference, in order to demonstrate the desire of the Anglo–Jewish community to play its part in giving effect to the British Mandate over Palestine and to associate itself with other important Jewish communities in entering the extended Jewish Agency.
During the discussion an opinion was expressed that the contemplated conference be postponed until after the Zionist Congress this Summer will have finally ratified the plan for the extension of the Agency. It was further (Continued on Page 4)
argued that it would be advisable that the Board receive beforehand the constitution of the Jewish Agency.
To this argument Dr. Leonard Stein, political secretary of the Zionist Executive, replied that the functions of the Jewish Agency are defined in Article IV of the Palestine Mandate. As to the details of the plan, the exact constitutional machinery of the enlarged Agency and the distribution of seats on that body, it is only reasonable that the Zionist Organization should be desirous of consulting the respective Jewish communities before the final vote at the Zionist Congress. The Zionist Executive prefers this method to one by which the Jewish communities would be presented with a cut and dried program without having any other alternative than to take or leave it. The Board of Jewish Deputies, it was declared, would demonstrate its belief in the desirability of of the Jewish Agency in a formal public manner.
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