Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...
...British charged that the Jewish Agency and Haganah, as well as the extremist gangs, were responsible for violence and disorder in Palestine. In other words, the British were now in open and direct conflict with the main Zionist movement...
...gesture was meant to warn the British that, if it came to real war, the Jews had a well organized army. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi went further: they kidnaped six British officers, held them as hostages for two Irgun gunmen who had been sentenced to death. Gangs raided central railway shops in Haifa; nine Jews were killed. The Haviva Reik, carrying 450 illegal immigrants (see cut), was nabbed by British patrol ships and brought into Haifa. She flew a banner proclaiming: "Keep the gate open; we are not the last...
Youth groups and their conferences, run by professional "young people," and often taken over by extremist groups, are constant thorns in the side of any school or college administration. To those who have watched organization after organization mushroom suddenly in the fertile soil of good intentions and able publicity, only to die or become discredited almost immediately, the proposal of an International Student Conference in Prague this summer can bring no starry-eyed enthusiasm. Clearly it will be impossible to divorce political differences from any phase of the convention; for example, the establishment of a permanent world youth organization, complete...
...Secretary Ernest Bevin beamed; his bull-necked insistence on holding the elections, he felt, was now justified. Just as beamish were the Greek election winners, the royalist Populist Party, led by Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. For the time being, the Populists, despite the presence in their ranks of some extremist reactionary elements, moved warily; thousands of Greeks who had turned against the Left because of EAM terror last year might swing back if the Right disclosed a mailed fist. As Premier of a small coalition Cabinet (Right and Center) they chose Panayotis Poulitsas, an amiable nonpartisan...