Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane, bringing his armed guards along. One morning while Premier al-Sulh was still shaving, the Mufti turned up at his house. Told that the Mufti was in his garden, the Premier snorted unbelievingly: "Stuff and nonsense." But there he was. Lebanon tightened up security measures accordingly, turned back Jewish travelers at the frontier. The Mufti was back in the limelight of gestures and intrigue. He sent a cryptic message to Jerusalem Arabs: "I hope to be seeing you soon...
...already sown. The Hashemite-ruled countries of Trans-Jordan and lraq harbor long-range designs towards Syria as well as Arab Palestine, while the Mufti of Jerusalem sees the new state as the core of an ever-widening personal empire. To the North, the Christian Lebanese prefer a Jewish to a Moslem neighbor, while Ibn Saud of Arabia has already acknowledged that his oil concessions will be continued, whatever the UN decides for the Holy Land. Although the Arabstates could unite against partition, long term objective clashes would dilute their strength...
Militarily, the Arab states alone are a poor second to the Jewish Haganah of 75,000 well-equipped men, many of whom saw war action in Allied armies. General D'Arey, a recent British military commander in the Holy Land, stated that Haganah could defend itself against all external Arab forces for at least one year. Although Arab military manpower approaches 100,000, the quality is poor and it is considered significant that the one force capable of serious military action is the British-trained-and-officered Trans-Jordan Arab Legion...
Other guest lecturers include Moshe Shertok, political head of the Jewish Agency and Frieda Kirchway, editor of The Nation...
Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...