Nahum Sokolow was automatically excluded as president of the Zionist Congress today as a result of the decision by the Zionist Actions Committee that no member of the Zionist Executive is eligible for the Congress’ presidium, although at all past Congresses, in the last decade, Mr. Sokolow, now chairman of the Zionist Executive, nominally presided.
Leo Motzkin, chairman of the Actions Committee, was named president of the Congress with the following vice-presidents: General Zionists Menachem M. Ussishkin, Palestine; Judge Julian W. Mack, United States; Mizrachi-Dr. Emil Schmorak, East Galicia; Rabbi Meyer Berlin, United States, and Heschel Farbstein, Poland; Revisionists-Dr. Selig Soskin, Palestine and Dr. Z. Tiomkin, France; Laborites-Eliezer Kaplan, Palestine; Anselm Reiss, Poland, and M. Silberstein. Dr. M. D. Eder, president of the English Zionist Federation and a General Zionist, was also named a vice-president in behalf of the United Kingdom.
Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, was excluded from the presidium, by virtue of his being a member of the Zionist Executive.
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