Word: jaffa
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...Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration...
...days later the Arab mob whirled through Jaffa under the green flag of Allah...
...using only their truncheons, tried to club into submission 8,000 gibbering, shrieking Arabs who attacked with knives and brickbats, dragged policemen from their horses which stampeded whinnying and brought a puckered frown to the brow of District Commissioner Crosbie who watched from a window overlooking the melee in Jaffa's main square...
Eloquent, devoted Dr. Herzl, were he , alive today, might visit or live in Tel Aviv, first Zionist city, population 50,000. Its shrubbery, stucco residences, theatre, opera house and 50 schools stand on the dunes outside Jaffa, Palestine. Hebrew alone is spoken. The name of Herzl is almost sacred...
...Organization of America. But chilling was the picture they beheld with their minds' eye. They saw steely, Atheist Russia, land of Communism, attacking and destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip abroad, told his listeners that leading officials had told him it is "the ambition of the Yevseksia [Jewish branch...