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Terrorist Raids. The combination of fading zeal and falling economy?although neither has yet reached alarming proportions???was bound to produce discontent. It also produced the beginnings of disillusionment. Last year, 11,000 Jews pulled up stakes and moved away from Israel?almost as many as came into the country. Some of them were dispirited by the steadily increasing level of terrorist raids across Israel's borders. A disturbingly high proportion of the departing emigrants was the professional men, managers and technicians who had engineered the Israeli economic miracle. In some cases, they returned to the countries of their birth...
...Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur?but none of national proportions???none except the rugged, unassuming, eloquent bachelor of Youngstown, Ohio. Certainly ex-Justice Clarke never expected the honor. A year and a half ago when he retired from the bench he declared that he was too old to aspire to leadership of so great a cause, but that he hoped...
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