Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 33

has the right to induce groups to withdraw from their territorial Federation. " In the two questions, in that of the wording of the constitution and in that of Poland, I consider the attitude of the Executive to be correct." The General Council passed a resolution in which it expressed the expectation that the negotiations regarding the adaptation of the structure of the World Union to the laws of the Organisation would lead to a satisfactory conclusion before the 19th Congress. 7. The World Union convened a new Conference in the middle of June, 1935, in Cracow, to which the Executive delegated its member, Mr. B. Locker, Director of the Organisation Department, for the purpose of carrying out the afore-mentioned negotiations. But the questions dealt with here were discussed only in the Organisation Commission, in the presence of the representative of the Executive, without any agreement or even any mutual approach in standpoint being achieved. The meeting ended unfortunately with a split in the World Union, whose whole form of existence has thus become questionable. II.—World Confederation of General Zionists. 1. After the Cracow Conference just described and the rupture that took place, the General Zionists who left the World Union organised themselves as " the World Confederation of General Zionists." The World Confederation informed the Executive of its establishment and announced the convening of a constituent conference for August 18th, 1935, in Lucerne. 2. The Executive took note of the provisional announcement, and at the same time declared that the structure of the World Confederation must naturally be adjusted to the laws and requirements of the Zionist Organisation and that the official recognition of the World Confederation depended upon observance of this principle. B. Jezvish State Party. 1. At the 18th Congress, as a result of the split that had taken place in the Revisionist camp shortly before, there appeared a special fraction of the democratic Revisionists, who organised themselves during the Congress as a new party under the name of " The Jewish State Party." 2. The new party addressed a request to the Executive to recognise it as the legal successor of the Separate Union of the Zionist Revisionists. After thorough consideration and after obtaining an expert opinion from the Attorney we came to the conclusion that, apart from the question of the legal status of the Separate Union of the Revisionists, the Jewish State Party cannot be regarded as identical with this Separate Union. The Jewish State Party was likewise informed that it was free to 33 3