Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Van Paassen, no Jew but a longtime friend of Zionism, set up his committee to seek, through U.S. pressure, what Britain has thus far refused. Britain permits Jews in Palestine to enlist as individuals (20,000 have); it has set up several all-Jewish regiments. But again last week it balked at an independent Jewish Army-largely because the British must also consider the sympathies of 30,000,000 Middle Eastern Arabs...
...dispute which finds Jews themselves in sharp disagreement. In Philadelphia last fortnight, a potent group of non-Zionist Jews met under sturdy, deliberate Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia to form a new organization called the American Council for Judaism. Its credo, as stated by Rabbi Wolsey: "[We] will seek to identify and define the Jew as a member of a religious community and nothing else. . . . We are definitely opposed to a Jewish State, a Jewish flag or a Jewish Army...
...have stated emphatically and repeatedly to Commander in Chief General Eisenhower that in leading North and West Africa . . . into the ranks of the United Nations I seek no assistance or support for my personal ambition. My sole purpose is to save French Africa, help to free France and then retire into private life with the hope that future leaders of France may be selected by the French people themselves and by no one else...
What started as a routine request for war service volunteers last night turned into a cross between the Secret Service and a game of hide-and-seek as the University issued an "urgent" demand for six wardens to care for an unmentionable bit of property in case of air raids...
Voting places will be set up in all the House dining halls for this now balloting. Seven men will run for the position of Class Secretary, director of graduate events, white 22 nominees seek membership on the seven and Permanent Class Committee...