Administrative Committee of Agency Opens Sessions

The fourth and last meeting of the present Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine will open here tomorrow for a two-day session preliminary to the second meeting of the Council of the Jewish Agency which opens Tuesday evening. Among the important problems facing the Administrative Committee are the Agency budget and the various political developments since the last meeting of the Committee in Berlin in August and September, 1930.

At the conclusion of this meeting the Committee, of which Felix M. Warburg was chairman until he resigned last October as a protest against the White Paper, will go out of office. A new Administrative Committee will be elected by the Council. Among the 40 members of the Committee there are 13 Americans. The American Zionist members are Morris Rothenberg, New York; Judge William M. Lewis, Philadelphia; Gedaliah Bublick, New York; Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, New York and Berl Locker, New York. The American non-Zionist members are Dr. Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia; James Becker, Chicago; Meyer Eleasser, Los Angeles; Dr. Lee K. Frankel, New York; Alexander Kahn, New York; Herbert H. Lehman, New York; James Marshall, New York, and Felix M. Warburg, New York.

The meeting of the Council will open Tuesday evening with an address by Dr. Cyrus Adler, acting chairman, on “General Problems of the Jewish Agency Since the First Meeting of the Council.” Memorial addresses in honor of Louis Marshall and Lord Melchett, who died since the Council’s initial meeting, will be made at this session. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, will speak on “Political Developments Affecting the Jewish National Home During the Last Two Years.”