Late this afternoon the Zionist Congress started its long deferred debate on the ratification of the pact between the Zionists and non-Zionists for the extension of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Dr. Georg Halpern, London, chairman of the Committee on the Jewish Agency, submitted the final text of the constitution draft for ratification. The constitution is to govern the composition and functions of the enlarged all-Jewish body to be created by the Zionists and non-Zionists at a special conference to be held in Zurich beginning this Sunday with the participation of 110 Zionists and 110 non-Zionists, including 44 prominent Americans headed by Louis Marshall and Felix M. Warburg.
Morris Rothenberg of New York, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, led the fight for the ratification of the draft as recommended by the committee. A number of amendments were introduced by the Radical Zionists, the Zionist Revisionists and the Poale Zion labor delegates. A heated discussion began, which was interrupted for a while to enable further negotiations. The session is to be resumed late in the evening and the vote is expected in the early morning hours.
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