The Maccabaean

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of THE MACCABAEAN :

At a meeting of our delegates to the Eighth Zionist Congress, held at The Hague, they decided and elected two additional members to the G. A. C., besides those elected at our convention. Permit me to ask you if the delegates had, or have, the power to do so, and if so, I would like to see the statute made known, and in the future at least, I shall work against the rule. I do not think it right that a few delegates shall have the power of electing members to the G. A. C. without the consent of the American Zionists.

The question Mr. Maltin asks cannot be decided with any authority for the reason that the Zionist movement has no official tribunal where questions of law are settled. It has been gen-

erally understood that the Federations, at their annual conventions, had the right to nominate its own members to be elected by the Congress to the Greater Actions Comite. We have always understood, also, that the Congress had a right to disregard the expressed wishes of the Federations for good cause. But we know of no authority vested in the delegates of any group to decide who shall be placed upon the Greater Actions Comite. The case which is brought into the fore by Mr. Maltin was one where the Federation had not nominated its full quota. The American Federation, it seems, was entitled to more than five members, but our Convention named only five. It was evident that the Congress, having decided to give America a larger representation, had to consult with the American delegates, in lieu of any other source. That the American delegates, acting in an advisory capacity, were within their right, we have no doubt.

NEW YORK