Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not approve. The Arab delegates wanted a wide-open discussion and an end to Britain's mandate. The Jews, with a golden opportunity to present their case to the world, were split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish Agency, principal champion of Jewish rights in the Holy Land, refused to be mere observers at the session; its spokesmen stayed away pending decision on their request to be treated as a voteless delegation.) On one point the delegates seemed unhappily agreed: the stored bitterness of 25 years of Palestine...
JERUSALEM, May 4--Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its centuries-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Holy Land in many weeks...
...break the issue wide open, Arab League delegates will insist that today's meeting immediately cut short British control and declare Palestine independent. But this is only one of several obscuring political issues; the UN's true task is to find quick relief for more than 100,000 Jewish DPs still in Europe, two years after...
Finally, there is the question of the composition of the investigating committee. The Jewish Agency, sole spokesman for the Palestine Jewish community, insists that it be represented so that the Jewish case may be presented in convincing manner. On both ethical and legal grounds, the Agency should have its request granted; whether it will remains to be seen...
...settled, a prospect that now seems months or years away. It may be that the UN itself should sponsor immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine while the forth-coming investigation takes place. At no other time could the real and not the imagined effects of large scale Jewish immigration be under such careful UN scrutiny. The results of such immigration would go a long way towards determining whether partition, a new mandatory power, or some other solution, would be best for Palestine. It is very possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting further Russian...