A proposal to scrap the agreement between Zionists and non-Zionists guaranteeing the latter fifty per cent representation in the Jewish Agency for Palestine will be taken up at the World Zionist Congress.
This appeared definite today when Dr. Nahum Goldmann of Paris, president of the Committee of Jewish Delegations and Zionist Leaders, officially submitted the question for discussion.
Immediate opposition to the proposal was raised by leading non-Zionist member of the Agency. A statement issued today after a conference of non-Zionists declared the fifty-fifty arrangement must not be ended.
A series of hurried conferences between non-Zionists and Zionist leaders were held over the week-end, evidently aimed at forestalling scrapping of the present arrangement. Leading non-Zionists at the parleys were Neville Laski, president of the British Board of Jewish Deputies; Morris Waldman, secretary of the American Jewish Committee; Dr. Maurice M. Karpf, director of the School for Jewish Social Research, New York, and Dr. Werner Senator, Jerusalem.
Also slated for discussion is a proposal to end the “transfer agreements” whereby Palestine oranges are exchanged for German machinery. A number of Zionist leaders have privately promised support to a resolution to end the barter pact, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today.
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