Word: basel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ernst Emil Herzfeld, 68, German-born archeologist famed for his triumphs among the ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
...unsuspected possessor of absolute pitch, he could name any note he heard struck on the piano. In one morning, Pierino learned the first movement of Beethoven's First Symphony and shortly after conducted the entire symphony at the Rome Opera. After that came concerts in Milan, Zurich, Basel...
...year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
With this head start, the Congress in Basel might well find a means to end the nightly warfare in Jerusalem. If they did not, Palestine in 1947 would surely be, as one Jerusalem newspaper called it last week, "no refuge for the wanderer...
Among the delegates were tanned, freckled farmers from the Holy Land, businessmen from the U.S., Britons with Oxford accents, worn, pale graduates of Europe's D.P. camps, Jews from Finland and Aden, Dutch Guiana and China. All had come to Basel to answer the question: "Shall the Congress approve the Jewish Agency's formula for the partition of Palestine into separate and independent Arab and Jewish states as a bargaining basis with Britain?" On this question depended Jewry's attitude toward the London conference in January...