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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria three months ago, grizzled old Chaim Weizmann had lunch with young Henry Ford II. Israel's President spoke of his country's desperate need for motor transportation. With only 30 miles of the rickety Haifa-to-Cairo coastal railroad operating, Israel had to rely almost entirely on highway transport, and therefore needed the U.S. auto industry's help. Weizmann's plea presented Ford a double opportunity: to wipe out the last unpleasant memories of Grandfather Henry Ford's involvement in anti-Semitism,* and at the same time to swing...
...Israel, a British legation official dropped in to visit Dr. Chaim Weizmann, chatted pleasantly and left after a while with a signed paper that finally relieved Israel's President of his British citizenship...
...Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...
...callers, he canceled his four out-of-town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work...
...Chaim Weizmann was packing his bags for a flight to the U.S. to be guest of honor this month at a $250-a-plate "Salute to the First President of Israel...