Differences Ironed out As Agency Council Committees Are at Work

As the Jewish Agency Council in session here speeded to conclude its meetings before sundown on Wednesday when Tisha B’Ab, commemorating the fall of Jerusalem and the burning of the Temple 1,859 years ago, will be ushered in, progress in its work was marked as the committees continued deliberations to iron out differences and to pave the way for joint action at the last session.

The three-day sessions were expected to be concluded Wednesday afternoon according to schedule. The Zionist and non-Zionist groups, in addition to their participation in the committees, met separately at caucuses and at banquets given by various groups.

An agreement between the Zionists and non-Zionists concerning the composition of the Executive for the ensuing period was reached, according to an announcement by Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The Executive is to consist of 8 Zionists and 4 non-Zionists. Mr. Marshall appeared before a meeting of the Zionist half of the Council which discussed in harmony various details of the outstanding questions. A point of discussion was the demand of the non-Zionists to include in the constitution the resolution adopted by the Zionist Congress, on the initiative of the Mizrachi, to incorporate the care for Jewish religious needs in the program of the Jewish Agency. The laborites and the Radical Zionists were op-

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posed to incorporating this resolution into the text of the constitution.

Three banquets were held Tuesday night. A reception was given at the Bauer-au-Lac Hotel by the American non-Zionist delegation in honor of the European non-Zionist delegates. Louis Marshall, Sir Herbert Samuel and Felix M. Warburg were the speakers. “I am happy that in the seventy-third years of my life the ideal which I sought in vain for thirty years is about to be realized,” Mr. Marshall said. Sir Herbert Samuel promised to urge greater support by the British government by introducing interpellations in the House of Commons.

A banquet in honor of Dr. Albert Einstein was given by the American Jewish Physicians Committee for the Hebrew University. A banquet in honor of Leon Blum, French Socialist leader, was given by the Poale Zion, labor party delegation.

DR. WISE ISSUES STATEMENT

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who is not participating in the Jewish Agency Council session, issued a statement to the press here giving his reasons for not entering the Jewish Agency Council. He was offered a seat on the Council by the group of Radical Zionists, but he declined not wishing, he said, “to pawn his conscience.” He prefers to leave the Agency to its friends since the Zionist Congress declined to insist on the reservations he thought would safeguard the Zionist ideals. He would remain in the Zionist Organization and would cooperate with the Jewish National Fund, the Zionist land purchasing agency, as there is universal agreement that the land problem is most urgent, he said.

ZIONIST GENERAL COUNCIL CONSTITUTED

The Zionist General Council, otherwise known as the Actions Committee, being the legislative body between Congresses, was constituted yesterday Dr. Leo Motzkin was chosen president and Abraham Goldberg of New York, vice-president. Other vice-presidents chosen are Deputy H. Farbstein, Warsaw; Richard Lichtheim. Berlin; S. Kaplan and Z. Rubaschow, Palestine.

At the same session, the Zionist General Council elected Col. Frederick H. Kisch, Dr. Hermann Struck and Adolf Boehm as directors of the Jewish National Fund.

NO CHANGE IN STATUS OF HADASSAH BY CONGRESS DECISIONS

No change in the status of the Hadassah, the American women’s Zionist Organization, was brought about by the decisions of the Sixteenth Zionist Congress concerning the health work in Palestine.

The resolutions adopted concerning the matter are considered as material for further negotiations by the incoming Palestine Executive.

The budget of the Hadassah was set at £81,000, exclusive of the Tiberias hospital and the nurses’ training school.