The newly-elected Zionist Actions Committee, the governing Zionist body in the interim between Congresses, held its first meeting today and decided to hold a session of its presidium every three months in order to control the activities of the Zionist Executive. Dr. Leo Motzkin, chairman of the old Actions Committee, was reelected chairman.
The Committee, consisting of 52 members and six so-called co-opted members, is divided by parties as follows: General Zionists, 18; Laborites, 15; Revisionists, 10; Mizrachi 7 and Radicals, 2. The six-co-opted members are Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the retiring president of the Zionist Organization; Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund; Dr. Leo Motzkin, Isaac Naiditch, Victor Jacobson and Schmarya Levin. Only the first three have the voting right.
The Committee includes six Americans, all from New York. They are Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America; Jacob de Haas, chairman of the organzation committee of the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. Edward Jacobs, president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America; Berl Locker, general secretary of the Zionist Socialist Party of America; Rabbi Wolf Gold, and Abraham Goldberg.
Pearl Franklin of Chicago, Elihu Stone of Boston, Mrs. Archibald Silverman of Providence and Abraham Tulin of New York are the American alternates on the Committee.
The Committee als named the following vice-presidents: Kurt Blumenfeld, Ben Zion Mosinsohn, Joseph Sprinzak, Rabbi Meyer Berlin, Richard Lichtheim, Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum and Salman Rubaschow.
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