Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...
...impatience of the Jewry of Poland with his policy of making haste slowly in the business of restoring Palestine to the Jews and the Jews to Palestine. The economic policy of Poland has driven thousands of Jews to look for new homes. Weizmann has not yet organized Palestine to receive them...
...militant Zionists of Paris, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, enfant terrible of the movement, founder of the Jewish Legion. Jabotinsky strongly disapproves of Weizmann's alleged acquiescence in British attempts to whittle down the Zionist pledge...
...party of Jerusalem, led by the so-called "iron man," Menahem Ussishkin, a former colleague of Weizmann...
...proceedings were begun by Grand Rabbi Abraham Kuk, who pronounced a prayer. Dr. Weizmann declared the University open. Sir Herbert Samuel conveyed the good wishes of the British Government. Then, Lord Balfour arose and, as he did so, some 16,000 feet kept time to some 16,000 gesticulating arms waved by their cheering owners. Minutes passed before the distinguished speaker could speak. The ovation was such that the walls of the amphitheatre and the crowded boughs of nearby trees were endangered. At length?silence...