Zionist Actions Committee Meeting Opens; to Discuss Exodus Case Tomorrow

The Zionist Actions Committee session opened here today with a meeting of the executive this morning at which it was decided that the first item on the agenda of the first plenary session tomorrow morning would be a discussion of the deportation of the Exodus refugees to Germany.

Following consideration of the Exodus case will be the presentation of political and financial reports, probably by Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency political Chief, and Eliezer Kaplan, Agency treasurer. The full session will not discuss the sports, in order to save time, but special sub-committees will consider each reported make recommendations to the plenum. The session is scheduled to last between (##)ght and ten days. Shertok has already submitted to the executive a report on the Agency’s presentation of its case to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.

The principal issue facing the committee is its attitude toward UNSCOP’s report, although the report may not be published before the Actions Committee completes its deliberations, it is hoped that some idea of the U.N. group’s attitude will be available.

The major split is on the problem of partition, with the Laborites favoring (##) and the left-wing parties, led by the Hashomer Hatzair, expected to fight a last (?)tch stand in opposition. The General Zionists, headed by Drs. Abba Hillel Silver and Emanuel Neumann, are expected to support the position adopted at the 22nd World Zionist Congress–discuss partition only if a concrete proposal is put forward.

Other problems facing the 77 members of the Actions Committee are greater autonomy, particularly in financial matter, for national Zionist organizations as processed at the recently-concluded European Zionist Conference; re-definition of the relationships between the Washington, London and Jerusalem branches of the Jewish Agency; and, lastly, budgetary problems.