Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 88

submitting a report on this part of its activity. The Congress Court in office has concluded its report before the Congress begins, but continues to exercise its functions during the Congress until the new elections take place. The period for which the new Congress Court has to report begins with its election, that is, with the conclusion of the Congress, so that the busiest period in the work of the Congress Court cannot properly be included in its report. .Since the last Congress fifteen cases that were in suspense have been settled, whilst eight matters of dispute still await settlement. Most of the cases that have been settled were brought to a conclusion by means of an agreement. The arbitration activity of the Congress Court could be considerably extended if certain technical difficulties were removed. It has been found that the entrusting of individual members of the Court with the carrying out of matters in suspense, owing to the particular circumstances connected therewith, and the setting up of special courts, have not proved satisfactory. It seems necessary that meetings of the Court should take place regularly at certain intervals, so that all matters in suspense can be dealt with. A scheme for the reorganisation of the Congress Court will be submitted to the General Council. It may be expected that the institution of the Court, after the proposed reform has been carried out, will acquire enhanced importance. Court of Honour. The following were elected by the Eighteenth Congress as members of the Court of Honour : Chairman, Dr. J. Rufeisen, and the following assessors : Josef Ahronowitz, Tel-Aviv; Apolinary Hartglas, Warsaw; Dr. Oscar Cohen, Paris; Richard Lichtheim, Jerusalem; Dr. Theodor Weisselberger, Czernowitz; and Dr. Oscar Wolfsberg, Jerusalem. Dr. Cohn died in 1934. In accordance with a decision of Congress, the following members of the Congress Court, the Chairman, Mr. S. Gronemann and Dr. Michael Ringel, Lwow, Dr. Moses Smoira, Jerusalem, and Mr. Samuel Ussischkin, Jerusalem, were in cases of emergency co-opted as substitutes. The Court of Honour had to decide in a number of cases of infringement of discipline and of acts prejudicial to the interests of the movement as well as in certain cases of insult to members of the Organisation. In some of its decisions the Court of Honour made use of the procedure of a conditional sentence, viz : it imposed certain conditions under which the legal validity of a judgment could be nullified or its execution could be dropped. It is a matter of course that the Court of Honour, although composed of members of all the groups represented at the Congress, has strictly refrained from any partisan treatment of the individual matters of dispute. On this principle all the members of the Court of Honour find themselves in agreement. The decisions of