Word: shertok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formerly known as Shertok, which in his Russian mother tongue sounds like "little devil." The new name he recently adopted means "servant" in Hebrew...
President Truman expressed himself as "immensely gratified." Trygve Lie put in a sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...
...Shertok's praise was explicable on two counts: i) Israel could afford to be generous with words, having got most of what it wanted; 2) Israel might, just possibly, want to make common cause with Egypt against a resurgence of British "imperialism" in the Middle East...
...Mapai, the mildly socialist party of Premier Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, which roughly corresponds to Britain's Labor Party. It favors "democratic" socialism, limited Western orientation, peace with the Arabs. It is generally expected to win, though not by as large a margin as Ben-Gurion and Shertok are fighting for. It has optimistically nominated 118 candidates for the 120 posts to be filled. "The other two places," cracked Israelis last week, "are for the opposition...
...able as you-to be idle. You should be in the government. Name a job and it's yours." "Well," said the friend, "I could use a cabinet post." "Oh, I'm afraid that would be difficult," said Ben-Gurion. "You see, all the posts are filled. Shertok is Foreign Minister. Zisling is Minister of Agriculture. Kaplan is Minister of Finance, and so it goes." "All right," said the friend, "so make me Minister of Air." "But there's no such post," exclaimed the Premier. "What would a Minister of Air do without any aircraft?" The friend...