Word: weizman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
...Congress' answer would show itself largely in the election of a new president to succeed aged, ailing Chaim Weizman, distrusted as pro-British in spite of a lifetime given to Zionism. Two candidates were angling for his job. One was dynamic David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground...
...swank Dorchester Hotel and Grosvenor House (which also housed the Arab delegates), Drs. Chaim Weizman and Nahum Goldman, of the Jewish Agency Executive, watchfully waited. Neville Laski, K.C. (Harold's brother) raced between conference and Whitehall with news of the latest developments...