Jewish Agency Question Discussed by Zionist Actions Committee

The question of the extension of the Jewish Agency and the contemplated visit of Dr. Weizmann to the United States were features of the political discussion which developed at Tuesday’s session of the Zionist Actions Committee, according to a London cable to the “Jewish Morning Journal.”

Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum of Warsaw, Dr. Jerzy Rosenblatt of Lodz. M. M. Ussishkin of Jerusalem, Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America, Abraham Goldberg of New York Col. Frederick H. Kisch and Dr. Weizmann participated in the discussion.

Deputy Gruenbaum pressed Dr. Weizmann for a definite statement concerning his plans in the United States with regard to the extension of the Jewish Agency. He warned against granting further concessions to the non-Zionists in American with regard to the Agency question.

Louis Lipsky spoke on the question of the Jewish Agency and replied to the suggestion of Deputy Gruenbaum that it is vain to hope for the participation of American non-Zionists in the Agency, the “Morning Journal cable states. Mr. Lipsky stated that European Zionists were misinformed concerning the situation in America. European Zionists endeavor to influence the American Zionists to take too hasty steps, but Americans act only when they are faced with the realities of life. Mr. Lipsky expressed the hope that Dr. Weizmann and Sir Herbert Samuel will create the Agency.

Dr. Weizmann, according to the “Morning Journal,” assured Deputy Gruenbaum and all those who are anxious over the Jewish Agency question that he hopes to create the Agency during his visit here in October together with Sir Herbert Samuel and promised not to give further concessions to the American non-Zionists nor to deviate in any way from the decision of the Vienna Congress concerning the Agency. If a concession or deviation will be necessary, Dr. Weizmann stated, the question will first be submitted to the next Congress, but he hopes that this will not be necessary.

The “Jewish Daily Bulletin” learns from its London office that due to the fact that the meetings of the Zionist Actions Committee were declared closed to the press and because of the fact that the communiques issued concerning the session were insufficiently informative, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency there refrained from reporting the session.

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