Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been perhaps mildly Zionist in the past, but had never dreamed of going to Palestine themselves, suddenly looked on it as their personal refuge, and as the only community of which they could be full-fledged members. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Jewish problems, which arrived in Cairo last week, had found that 600,000 out of 750,000 Jews in European D.P. camps were, in Judge Simon H. Rifkind's phrase, "unrepentant Zionists," despite the struggle and the hardship awaiting them in Palestine...
...Cairo merchants knew what was coming. Stores and offices were shut down tight, giving the city a quiet, sabbatical appearance. But it was an unnatural quiet. Soon ugly crowds began to gather in the streets...
Sparkplug of UNRRA's present spurt was the Royal Australian Navy's fast-talking, reddish-haired R.G.A. Jackson. He had organized Malta's submarine supply line during the island's blitz. Later, as head of the Middle East Supply Center at Cairo, he had directed the imports of 20 countries. When Herbert Lehman made him senior deputy director of UNRRA, Jackson was given a job bigger but not much different from the one at Malta...
...rather inclined to rely on the devil they know than on the devil they don't." Then he suavely added: "It is not for me to decide [between Britons and Japs] the degree of their devilment." On his way home U Saw perhaps got as far as Cairo. Then no more was heard...
Faced with critical decisions, the Arab League Council prepared to meet in Cairo this week, the Zionist Organization executive council in Jerusalem the following week. Three British divisions were standing...