Word: weizmann
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British Reaction. In London famed Dr. Chaim Weizmann, leader for the past 13 years of the World Zionist Organization, announced that he had resigned in protest his presidency of that organization and of the Jewish Agency. Presently he said, hopefully...
With millions of Jews under the impression that the sale of land to Jews in Palestine would be absolutely forbidden, Dr. Weizmann added: "The Government has not definitely prohibited the purchase of land but has revealed its intention of sterilizing our work by administrative action and by placing obstacles in the way of every legitimate effort we make...
Zionist efforts will be redoubled at an emergency meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they...
Resigned. Chaim Weizmann, 45, English industrial chemist; as president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency; because Great Britain last week decided to inhibit further Jewish immigration into Palestine and the buying of Palestine lands by Jews. He hinted that headquarters of both organizations would be moved from England...
There are two schools of Zionist economics. The school led by Chaim Weizmann, 55, and Louis Lipsky, 53 would send Jews to Palestine and there create work for them. The genesis of this school is in sentiment-to help Jews escape from poverty as well as political discrimination. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 73, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, heads the other school. He would create jobs in Palestine. Then let Jews migrate and find the jobs. This is rationalistic, the sort of plan one might expect from a Jew who is almost a Boston Brahmin...