Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's five million Jews the only opportunity of creating a "vivid, joy-giving Jewish culture" outside of Palestine, Marvin Lowenthal, author and sometime chairman of radio's "Invitation to Learning," told members of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Hillel Foundation at Phillips Brooks House last-night...
...Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...materials and even utilized their power, for their own purposes. In 1936, Brigadier General Orde Wingate, of Burma fame, came to Palestine on Intelligence duty for the British Army. He organized raiders in Palestine. He trained Haganah men to defend British installations. In 1939, before the White Paper, stopping Jewish Immigration and land purchase, was issued, Wingate was relieved of his duty, and men who continued the training begun by him were imprisoned. In the spring of 1941, when the services of Haganah were again required, these men were released and the British themselves took over the training...
News item: JERUSALEM, Oct. 7--"Operation Land," long and carefully planned by Jewish groups in Palestine as the next phase of Jewish resistance to the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration and land acquisition, was carried out successfully last night, when more than 1,000 Jewish settlers, including 300 girls, arrived in 200 trucks in the Negev, the southern desort part of Palestine, and established twelve settlements in the strategic district which the British had reserved for themselves under the "federalization plan...
...towering rage, mild Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, sent a sharp personal note of protest to Truman, went to his country home, Chequers, to cool off for the weekend. Britons professed to fear that Truman's statement would incite Palestine Jews to new disorders and uncompromising demands. The Jewish underground army had already ended the "truce" of nonviolence. Arab leaders angrily attacked the Truman plan, said it could only be forced through if backed by half a million U.S. troops...