Although the Laborites did not secure a complete majority in the world election of delegates to the World Zionist Congress which is to meet at Prague later in the month, their number exceeds forty percent of the total according to authoritative figures secured by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
Altogether there will be three hundred delegates at the Congress of whom approximately fifteen will be chosen by the world election committee after the Congress is in session. Some slight alterations are possible during the scrutinization of the delegates’ mandates by the credentials commission at the Congress.
According to present reliable figures, the Laborites hold 137 seats; the General Zionists, including the group of Isaac Gruenbaum, 76; the Jabotinsky Revisionists hold 43 seats; the Grossman Revisionists 4; the Mizrachi 32; Radicals, 2, and others, 2.
The fifteen additional seats on the remainder votes of the various countries will probably be divided chiefly among the smaller parties, but it is considered unlikely that it will affect the general proportions.
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