Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also, as usual, gave frank, personal opinions on controversial issues: he approved a United Nations plan for partition of the Holy Land with Jewish and Arab states. He came out for abolition of the veto in the Security Council, provided a satisfactory definition of aggression were written into the charter. In odd moments, despite his full and exacting schedule, he found time to prepare his speech on foreign policy for this week's appearance at Tacoma, Wash...
...Committee majority report, which has merited and received most unofficial, pre-assembly member nation support, designates the central coast line, northern industrial sector, and southern desert as Jewish. To the Arabs will go the northern interior ber nation support, designates the central coast line, would remain indivisible, with the frank recognition that Jewish taxes would, in large part, support the Arab area. With the transition period tentatively set at two years, it is urged that 150,000 Jewish refugees be admitted immediately, with another 60,000 per year to come in during the remainder of the period...
...More Bumping. Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express ran the most fascinating story of the gruesome week. One refugee, it reported, "was trailed by the feet down the 30-ft. gangway, his head bumping as he went. This caused a group of American Jewish correspondents to hurl themselves against the wire netting around the press enclosure shouting protests. They were rebuked by a correspondent from the United Press, who told them: 'Remember you are here as reporters, not as sympathizers or propagandists...
...Palestine. Isolated as they are, they are threatened with extinction. There have been no conversions for several years, and Donato Manduzio is a greyheaded man. Marriage presents an almost insurmountable difficulty for them. Last year one of the group's elders wrote to the president of a Jewish refugee organization: "A young man, Nazaro di Salva, born in 1925, wants to take a wife, but in our community there is none. I therefore apply to you as president of orphans and refugees, that you might find among them a girl willing to marry him and come to San Nicandro...
This knotty problem still remains unsolved, but life for San Nicandro's Jews is not without its consolations. They had their great day a year ago when they were officially received into the Jewish community. Wrote Manduzio to the Union of Jewish Communities in Rome: "We have completed our arduous undertaking as far as circumcision is concerned. We hope that after what has happened you will pay us a visit...