Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ultra-tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy is the famed veteran hero of the Czechoslovak legions who stormed clear across Russia during the Russian Revolution, sailed from Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly...
...governing British alike believed last week that loose in Palestine was a band of young, venge ful Jews, popularly known as Revisionists, who were out to slit Arab throats in reprisal for the 20-year-old Arab hostility to the Jews making the predominantly Arabian Palestine their "homeland." For firing on an Arab bus last spring, a young Revisionist was hanged last month at Acre, calling out the name of Revisionist Leader Jabotinsky, and singing the party song as he mounted the scaffold...
...time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...
...religious, admit their Jewish ancestry. The other kind is a smaller but more articulate group of "Jews in America"-Jews who have not only a common religion but a common culture; who believe they are members of a scattered nation; who tend to approve Zionist aims toward a Jewish homeland. Between these two groups there is deep-rooted animosity. Last week, as has happened before, that animosity came out in the open...
Among the numerous Jewish political groups of Palestine is an extreme rightist organization called the New Zionist Organization, also known as the Jewish Fascists. This young men's society, a terrorist group in its original Polish homeland, believes in the Old Testament eye-&-tooth principle when dealing with both British and Arabs. The New Zionists' politics are repugnant to both the British Passport Office and the Zionist-operated Central Palestine Bureau. So visa applications to Palestine are invariably combed to eliminate the Jewish Fascists. A few have nevertheless slipped through...