Word: basel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Question. Fifty years ago Herzl, after presiding at the first Zionist Congress, wrote in his diary that within 50 years the world would have heard of his dream of a Jewish state. Last week delegates to the 22nd World Zionist Congress, meeting in Basel, Switzerland, where Herzl's group had met, knew with pride and some disquiet that his prophecy had been fulfilled...
...only Palestine Jewry but Jews all over the world, in the election of delegates to a new World Zionist Congress, were passing judgment on the wisdom of this strategy of terror. On Dec. 9, the newly elected Congress would meet in Basel, Switzerland, to choose a new Jewish Agency Executive and reframe or reaffirm Jewish policy on Palestine...
Britten's Peter Grimes, first produced in London in June 1945, had already been sung in Swedish in Stockholm, in Flemish in Antwerp, in German in Basel and Zurich. Last week at Serge Koussevitzky's summer music colony at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, U.S. audiences heard three performances in English...
Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...afternoon of June 11, the Bank for International Settlements held its 15th annual general meeting in the austere board room of its building in Basel, Switzerland. In other years, such famed international bankers as Germany's Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk, Britain's Montague Norman and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Italy's Dottore Raffaele Pilotti, Japan's Hisaakira Kano, and the U.S.'s Thomas McKittrick had met around the huge, oval table. But this year may be B.I.S.'s last: several nations would like to have it dissolved, and even whisper that there would...