While the Zionist Congress continued in deadlock over the choice of the Zionist part of the Executive of the extended Jewish Agency to be formed here on Sunday, the non-Zionists, who are already beginning to arrive here for the Sunday afternoon session, disclosed the names of their four candidates for the Palestine Executive. The non-Zionist candidates are Professor Jacob G. Lipman, director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station and one of the American members of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission; Leo Wolman of New York, statistician and labor expert; Dr. Werner Senator of Berlin, secretary of the European office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and Dr. Maurice B. Hexter, executive secretary of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston.
The nomination of these four candidates is considered in Zionist circles here as an indication of the earnestness with which the non-Zionists are approaching the Palestine problems.
As the Zionist Congress continued its sessions Friday with failure accompanying every proposal for the formation of a new Executive, the only (Continued on Page 4)
choice left for Dr. Weizmann, it was stated, was to propose the continuance of the present body. The Left wing again rejected Dr. Weizmann’s last proposal to include two laborites on the Executive of which Harry Sacher is to be a member. The laborites were unwilling to entertain this proposal because of their determination to oust Sacher. Under these circumstances, Dr. Weizmann would be compelled to combine with the Mizrachi, which is again difficult because the Mizrachi demands two places on the Executive, which is unacceptable.
On the other hand it is reported that the American non-Zionist leaders are eager to see Sacher remain on the Executive and in the event of his being left out by the Zionist Congress, the Jewish Agency Council may appoint him as its legal adviser.
Lord Melchett arrived here tonight to attend the Jewish Agency session on Sunday. Louis Marshall and Felix M. Warburg, together with the large American delegation, are expected to arrive Saturday.
Among the guests present at the proceedings of the Zionist Congress a considerable number of non-Zionist delegates, who arrived here to attend the Sunday session, were seen. Among them were Sholom Asch, Jewish novelist; Oscar Gruzenberg, well-known Russian Jewish jurist, and Dr. William Filderman, president of the Union of Roumanian Jews in Bucharest.
Baron Edmund de Rothschild of Paris, famous philanthropist and benefactory of the early Palestine colonists, informed Dr. Chaim Weizmann, in reply to his invitation, that he will gladly accept the office of honorary president of the Council of the Jewish Agency.
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