Word: weizman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rehabilitate the Hebrews in Palestine, last week withdrew as president. He wished to retire, Louis Lipsky asserted, "for the sake of harmony and peace." The day after he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, there emerged, in the form of a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the World Zionist Organization, a report from the committee of judges who have been investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky had been guilty of irregularities, excessions of authority, loose management and the like, as in the instance of endorsing...
Zionism is now working with the British under the League of Nations mandate. Dr. Weizman estimated there were only 100,000 Jews in Palestine, but with immigration, sanitation, education and new industries it could well be the home of 2,000,000 without depopulating the rest of the world of Jews. Said he: "I want to see a land in which Jews do not dominate non-Jews and non-Jews do not dominate Jews, and I wish to God that the three great religions there could work side by side for the development of Palestine...