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...Spirit of Bond Street. Weizmann greatly admired the British, was often accused by his fellow Zionists of imitating them (he wore Bond Street shirts and acquired a marked habit of understatement in his speech). In 1946, when he favored the British partition plan, David Ben-Gurion opposed him; Weizmann was forced out as head of the Zionist organization...
...Freedom of Israel" (as the Stern gangsters like to call themselves) who had inveighed against the U.N. mediator. The Communists (whose line the Sternists follow) called Bernadotte a "traveling agent of American business." Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok accused him of partiality to the Arabs, and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion himself snapped: "The truce is an act of war designed to break our will...
...hardened. Life has been cheap here for years. What shocked us is the recurrence of political murder. God knows where that will lead us. If a couple of snot-noses can kill anyone they like, and get away with it, they might decide to turn on Shertok or Ben-Gurion next...
Thanks for the sympathetic article on Israel and Ben-Gurion [TIME...
...Israelophile, and never guilty of distinguished sympathy for Jewish problems, TIME remains true to tradition in [its] treatment of Israel's Premier, David Ben-Gurion: By its subtle suggestion that Israel will be an irreligious state . . . By its intelligence-insulting simplification of British treachery in the Middle East as being a mere desire for "stability...