Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to know why Major Day (TIME Letters, Aug. 12) considers himself a voice for the Jewish people in saying that "Negroes don't like 'Negress' any more than Jews like 'Jewess...
...intensity of his convictions stemmed, in part, from memories of his own early struggles, from the feeling that Roosevelt's New Deal had blessed the lives of the masses. Davidson was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, of Russian Jewish immigrants. He was forced to leave school in his teens, toiled as a locksmith's apprentice, a messenger, a leatherworker. His battle for existence went on for many years after the day when he accidentally picked up a piece of modeling clay, felt his heart jump, knew that whatever stood in his way he would...
...then LaGuardia created a political displaced person by announcing the "release" (as UNRRA director for Germany) of Britain's Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan. His reason: reorganization of UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were helping Jewish refugees to escape from Poland; later he was reinstated. He recently charged that UNRRA is an "umbrella under which Soviet spies are working." The next day, General Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander in Europe, announced that one Russian UNRRA employe had just been arrested as a Soviet MGB (secret police) agent...
...Jews upset Palestine's traditional feudal ways. In the upsurge of Arab nationalism, Palestine's Arabs have wondered why they, alone of Arab peoples, should be denied even the semblance of independence. The tide of Arab nationalism, sweeping in from the desert, met the tide of Jewish immigration sweeping in from Europe; the clash culminated in the "disorders" of 1936-39, when Arabs fought first the Jews, and then the British...
...first the opposition to Jewish immigration came only from a few Arab leaders and freebooters. But today, if those leaders gave the word, it would find a readier response among the mass of Arabs. On the eve of World War II, Britain yielded to Arab demands, limited immigration into Palestine to 75,000 more Jews, sharply restricted the sale of land to Jews...