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...statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the youngest nation in the world...
...Would the Jews accept the order? There was no sign of it in Tel Aviv. Cried one government spokesman: "Absolutely astounding ... a shameful proposal." The U.N., he said, had come "dangerously close to the prerogatives . . . held by God of quickening the dead." Even Israel's gentle, scholarly President Chaim Weizmann was moved to truculence. "No force on earth," he declared, "can remove the Jews from the Negeb, short of carrying them bodily-and they are a heavy burden...
...When Chaim Weizmann was a boy in Pinsk, Russia, he had already found his cause: he walked from door to door, collecting kopeks for a Jewish homeland in Zion. When he was eleven, he wrote to his teacher that the Zionist goal must be accomplished with British...
...Geneva last week, ailing and half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...