Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 17

&->.'•'...■? China (Shanghai, Tientsin); India (Bombay); Burma (Rangoon); Java (Soerabaya and Batavia). The groups in Spain and Portugal have been strengthened as ä result of the visit of Mr. Israel Cohen and thanks to the co-operation of some Zionists recently arrived from Germany. There is a justified prospect that the separate groups in Cairo and Alexandria will unite into a Federation. Thanks to the efforts of the Keren Hayesod delegate, Mr. M. Graiver, two Zionist groups have been formed in Ecuador. A detailed report about the World Union of General Zionists is given in cap. 10. (b) Zionist Separate Unions. The Mizrachi Separate Union, whose headquarters are in Jerusalem, has branch groups in the following eighteen countries r America, Belgium, Bessarabia, Bukowina, Czecho-Slovakia, Great Britain, France, East Galicia, West Galicia, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Palestine, Poland and Transylvania. The former groups in Germany and Switzerland have continued their existence outside the Separate Union as constituents of the local Federations. The Separate Union has held some conferences, which were devoted partly to discussions of programme and partly to the settlement of the internal leadership crisis. Within the Mizrachi the Youth and Workers' Association Hapoel Mizrachi occupies a special position. In the summer of 1934, following the example of the German Mizrachi, a group of Mizrachists in Palestine withdrew from the Mizrachi Separate Union and founded an organisation of their own under the name of Mizrachi Havatik. We informed the founders of this group that we expected that it would join up with the general organisation in accordance with our laws. The central organ of the Mizrachi, Hator, appears in Jerusalem. 2. The General Council, at the meeting in April, 1934, took note of the amalgamation of the two Separate Unions, Poale Zion (united with the Z.S.) and Hitachduth into a Separate Union under the following name : Union (Ichud) of the Jewish Socialist Labour Federation (Poale Zion) united with the Z.S. and Zionist Labour Party (Hitachduth). The headquarters of this organisation, which held a meeting of its party during the period of this report, are in Warsaw. The process of amalgamation of the branch groups of the two former Separate Unions has made progress, but has not yet been completed. There are joint or uniform branch groups in the following seventeen countries : America, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Danzig, Germany, England, France, East France, East Galicia, Latvia, Lithuania, Palestine, Poland and Yugo-Slavia. There are separate groups in five countries : Bessarabia, Bukowina, Rumania, West Galicia and Czecho-Slovakia. New groups, which are growing, have been formed in Estonia, Holland and Hungary. The parts of the former Separate Union " Hitachduth," that 17 2