Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and has led the fight in Britain to change the Bevin policy. Bitterly opposed to much of what his Government is doing in meeting the problem of the Holy Land, he asserted that "every British official in the Middle East is anti-Jewish...
Curiously enough, he added, the Arab masses regard Jewish settlement as "the symbol of Western oppression, and leaders are thus able to exploit a hatred for British imperialism to keep out the Jews...
...Jewish early spring festival commemorating the story of Haman, a sth Century B.C. Jew-baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy Hailstone, 12, was found by his sister last week, hanging by a cord in a storeroom. Said his father: "I believe Tommy had been reading in the papers about the Xiirnberg hangings and was staging a hanging himself...
...President Harry N. Wright, a mild-mannered, meticulous Quaker who loves problems, never runs short of them. Examples: cramming the overgrown student body into buildings designed for half the present enrollment; trying to counteract the slanders and slights that City College sometimes receives because of its 85% Jewish student body...
...million Jews in the world in 1940, only 10 million survive, Lowenthal said. Three million of these, living in Russia, are unable to function as Jews; little has been done among the five million in America toward establishing a Jewish culture, and the remaining two million are too dispersed for concerted action, he added...