Word: herschel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the jittery community suffered a further shock. In Meridian Hills, wealthy food broker Herschel Burney came home one night, found his 39-year-old wife, Mary Lois, dead on a bed, her face half blown away by a shotgun blast. Her murderer got away...
Last week the U.S. delegation had an idea. The U.S.'s Herschel V. Johnson suggested that if the British would agree to keep their troops in Palestine till next July 1 (and it might take at least that long for the troops to be pulled out, anyway), the separate Jewish and Arab states could be set up next summer...
Caves & Camels? At Lake Success, meanwhile, U.N.'s Palestine Committee threshed through preliminary speeches. Then, as the week ended, U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson read to fellow delegates the statement all parties had been waiting for. It brought instant reassurance to Zionists, anger to Arabs. Said Johnson: "The U.S. delegation supports . . . the majority plan [of the U.N. Palestine Commission] which provides for partition and immigration." Johnson cocked a mild eyebrow at Arab threats of force. He blandly added: "We assume there will be Charter observance...
Said U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson in the Security Council last week: "Greece's right to exist is involved. . . . The continued failure of the Security Council to take effective action in this case because of the Soviet veto cannot . . . preclude individual or collective action by states willing...
Cried the U.S.'s Herschel Johnson: "So . . . the innocent little Slavic-Albanian brothers . . . are menaced by this wicked fascist Greek wolf. It is curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash...