Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What now? Said Britain's Colonial Secretary, who doubles as a delegate: ". . . The mandate should now be terminated. ... I earnestly hope that the United Nations may have more success than the United Kingdom has had in persuading [Jews and Arabs] to cooperate. . . ." As he spoke, Jewish representatives and Arab committeemen sat with their backs to each other...
Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
...Before a U.N. Assembly committee this week was the 165-page report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) containing two diverging plans. UNSCOP's majority favored partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations, with independence set for Sept. 1, 1949. The minority plan (advanced by India, Persia and Yugoslavia) proposed semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab states within a Palestine federation, in which, because of greater numbers, the Arabs would elect the chief executive. Zionists regarded the majority plan as better than nothing. Arabs denounced both plans, opposed a Jewish state of any kind in Palestine...
Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...
...steamer Northland churns its way towards the Holy Land today with its load of unwanted Jewish refugees, Arthur Bernstein, the man who trained its officers, will be some 5000 miles away in Hillel House giving the Harvard Zionist Society a picture of the blockade running business. His talk is set for 8 o'clock tonight...