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The vote on the ratification of the Jewish Agency pact scheduled for the late Wednesday afternoon session was again postponed in view of the failure of the parties to agree on a method of composing a new Executive.

The Right and Left wings refused to vote on the Agency before the Executive question is settled. It appears that the proceedings of the Congress will be prolonged beyond the expectation. Dr. Weizmann, addressing the General Zionist bloc, intimated that the laborites hold that in case Harry Sacher, whom they oppose, is included in the Executive, they will ask for the inclusion of two members of their party which, in turn, will make it necessary to include tow members of the Orthodox Mizrachi group. This would make the Executive unwieldy, he said. He added that if the Congress adjourns without electing an Executive as it did at its Vienna session in 1925, he would refuse to serve as President of the World Zionist Organization. Such an outcome with regard to the Executive would be disastrous to the movement, he said.

Dr. Weizmann continued his endeavors to persuade the laborites to be satisfied with one representative in the Executive. In a conference with Poale Zion leaders, he urged them not to force him into a combination with the conservative Mizrachi group without the laborites, which is against his desire. The laborites were adamant, however, and declared that there will be no vote on the Jewish Agency before the Executive question is settled.

On the other hand, the Mizrachi held a caucus deciding to vote against any Executive which will not include at least one Mizrachi representative and which will not undertake to safeguard the autonomy of the Mizrachi religious schools in Palestine.