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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...
...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...
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...
...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...