Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish underground resistance groups in Palestine will be the subject of a talk by Rabbi Eugene Lipman, American representative of the Jewish Agency, at a meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Zionist Organization at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock...
Rabbi Lipman, who made several visits to Palestine during the war as an Army chaplain, will concentrate on the topic "Haganah: Defense and Resistance." Largest and most moderate of the underground organizations, Haganah, whose name means defense, was organized by the Jewish Agency during the Arab riots to protect the Hebrow settlements...
...British intelligence sources also got word of the Assembly's approach, and three British destroyers spoiled the Jewish plan. They spotted the Jewish Assembly, blinked an order for it to proceed to Cyprus. The Assembly's answer flashed back: "No, we have come from the concentration camps of Europe. This is not a pleasure cruise." A British destroyer captain pleaded: yield, avoid bloodshed. "Never, captain, never," was the reply. "As your own leader said we say: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the streets.' We shall fight on this ship...
...Kill Me Now!" The refugee ship dodged and turned, but, after 48 hours, gave up. Then, surrounded by the three destroyers, two police boats and a tug, the captive Jewish Assembly, flying blue-and-white Zionist flags, entered Haifa harbor. As it gently nosed to the quay, there was a strange silence on its packed decks. Grenadier guardsmen, unarmed and unhelmeted, stood by with ambulances. Guardsmen, led by an officer, climbed the gangplank...
...Catholic hierarchy and clergy, completely abandoning its technically impartial position, openly urged Poles to vote against the Communist-dominated Government. The Government thundered back: "The Vatican is a friend of the Germans!" Anti-Semitic terrorists circulated stories that the Government had allowed Jews to torture and kill 160 non-Jewish Poles imprisoned in the city of Radom. The extreme rightist underground paper Honor & Fatherland proclaimed that, unless the U.S. and Britain eventually severed relations with the Government, Poland's only hope was a future war between the great powers...