Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 23

meetings of the General Council have also been published as booklets in Hebrew. We have been in close relations with the Hebrew World Union. We have also made all arrangements, despite the existing difficulties, to facilitate the publication of the Congress reports at the forthcoming Congress, and later of a Stenographic Report, in Hebrew. We have carefully studied the question of a Hebrew Department at the Central Office, and have decided both on objective and financial grounds to proceed in this matter by stages. Our view is that the formal establishment of such a department is only to be desired if its efficiency is definitely assured. That is why the attempt was first made by the newly created Information Department of the Executive in Jerusalem to bring about a systematic Hebraisation of Zionist life The new Department will only be able to develop its programme of activity by degrees. In the meantime the Executive, by establishing a Bialik Foundation, has taken a further step in the direction of stimulating and animating the Hebrew culture movement. (c) Control Office. The purpose, sphere of activity, competence, locale and working methods of such a controlling authority, decided upon by previous Congresses, formed the object of enquiries and discussions with the qualified authorities in Palestine. The seriousness of the matter demands that before such an office is created it should be perfectly clearly understood what offices and institutions of the Zionist Organisation or of the Jewish Agency are subject to it, whether it should be qualified to examine the regularity or even the legality or expediency of expenditure, and how far its activity would be covered by the auditing that is at present done in Palestine and England. The manner in which the office is to be managed and financed must also be previously settled. The material relating to the question was submitted to the General Council at the meeting in 1935, and by a decision of the General Council it has been referred to a commission appointed in Palestine for examination. 7. Organisation Measures. A.—Congress Elections. The Organisation Department acts on behalf of the Executive as the supreme election authority. In this capacity it has before every, Congress to initiate the arrangements for the elections in all constituencies, to see to the formation of Central Election Commissions or the appointment of election commissioners, to issue detailed instructions, to co-operate' in the working out of the electoral procedure in the various countries, to determine the number of delegates according to the Shekel income, to deal with any complaints raised against the instructions of the Central Election Commissions, to receive the election reports and prepare 23