German Mizrachi Secedes from Mizrachi World Organisation.

The German Mizrachi Organisation officially announces to-day that it has seceded from the World Mizrachi Organisation, because the Mizrachi World Congress held at Basle in June, about the time of the Seventeenth Zionist Congress, rejected the demands of the Left Mizrachi group, that the Mizrachi leadership should give up its intransigeant anti-Weizmann policy, and should confine itself to religious and cultural activities and not take part in political conflicts in the Zionist movement.

The Conference of the German Mizrachi held in May to decide its attitude at the Mizrachi World Congress the following month, adopted a resolution demanding that the leadership of the Mizrachi should not interfere in political conflicts in the Zionist movement, worded in such a way that it was practically an ultimatum, and it was declared by many of the speakers that if the demands were rejected at the World Congress, the Opposition would break away and form a separate Left Mizrachi Federation. The German Mizrachists were particularly annoyed at the withdrawal of the Mizrachist representatives, Rabbi Mayer Berlin and Mr. Lazarus Barth, from the Zionist World Executive, as a protest against the Weizmann regime. There was some difficulty on account of the German Opposition at the Mizrachi World Congress in Basle, and at one time in the course of the proceedings, the entire Presidium withdrew, leaving ex-Deputy Farbstein to conduct the session. Finally, however, the World leadership was upheld by the Congress.

The German Mizrachi leaders claim to have the support of the Dutch Mizrachi, a large section of the Mizrachi in Czecho-Slovakia, several smaller Mizrachi groups in other countries, and considerable sections of the Zeire Mizrachi and the Hapoel Mizrachi.