Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British statesmen-who know the strategic value of the land of Palestine quite apart from that of the people-the issue of whether a great deal more money should be spent at once to protect Palestine Jews was sharply raised in London by-hard-featured, scrubby-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, shrewd president of the World Zionist Organization. After an interview with Minister of Colonies and Mandates Baron Passfield (famed in his former style as Economist Sidney Webb), Dr. Weizmann gave correspondents to understand that the Cabinet would continue sternest measures to restore peace in Palestine, and might even dismiss Acting...
...discussed a $15,000,000 Palestine finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...
Last week the proposition was put to vote. It passed by the whelming count of 230 to 30, with 50 not voting through abstention or absence. Many of Dr. Weizmann's anticipated opponents-orthodox Zionists, Laborite Zionists, radical Zionists-submerged their separate complaints to favor the central issue...
...happy man last week was Chaim Weizmann, goateed London chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must...
...Congress closed with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...