Jewish Agency Committee for Reorganizing Agency Fails to Produce Plan

The Organization Committee appointed by the Jewish Agency Administrative Committee at its session in London last August, has met here and after deliberating for two days has issued a communique which indicates that no definite decisions have yet been reached.

The Committee which met under the chairmanship of Berl Locker, head of the Organization Department of the Zionist Executive, had under consideration various schemes that had in view the possibility of broadening the non-Zionist representation on the Agency and of imparting to it a wider democratic character, by creating an electorate which would also include, as voters, Keren Hayesod contributors throughout the world.

Although the question of democratization was one of the main problems before the meeting of the Organization Committee, the communique does not disclose whether any progress has been made by the Committee in this particular direction. The statement issued by the Committee at the conclusion of their deliberations also invites Jewish public opinion to interest itself in the question of the reorganization of the Jewish Agency, so that the forthcoming summer session of the Jewish Agency which is further to consider the problem may be assisted in framing a definite plan.

The question of the reorganization of the Jewish Agency was the subject of considerable discussion at the last meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee held in London last August. It was following adoption of a resolution by the Actions Committee, calling for the appointment of a committee to discuss reorganization that the Administrative Committee, composed of non-Zionists as well as Zionists, sanctioned the appointment of the Organization Committee which has just met in Berlin.