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...Congress' answer would show itself largely in the election of a new president to succeed aged, ailing Chaim Weizman, distrusted as pro-British in spite of a lifetime given to Zionism. Two candidates were angling for his job. One was dynamic David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground...
There is no word for immigration in Hebrew, and so "aliyah" meaning "the going up" is always used. This refers to the going up from Egypt to the Promised Land, described in Exodus. "Every one must first make the Exodus from Egypt to really appreciate Palestine" said Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization...
...swank Dorchester Hotel and Grosvenor House (which also housed the Arab delegates), Drs. Chaim Weizman and Nahum Goldman, of the Jewish Agency Executive, watchfully waited. Neville Laski, K.C. (Harold's brother) raced between conference and Whitehall with news of the latest developments...
...influence among the Arabs of the Middle east. In UNO Russia had stood behind Arab Syria and Lebanon in their dispute with France and Great Britain. Now Russia was reminding the Arab world that she did not support Zionism, in fact already had a substitute Zion. In Palestine, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, stated unequivocally: "It is perfectly useless to offer the Jews a substitute for Palestine...
...Lithuanian-born Chaim Soutine was said by friends to have died of fear that the Germans would attack...