Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spirit of Bond Street. Weizmann greatly admired the British, was often accused by his fellow Zionists of imitating them (he wore Bond Street shirts and acquired a marked habit of understatement in his speech). In 1946, when he favored the British partition plan, David Ben-Gurion opposed him; Weizmann was forced out as head of the Zionist organization...
...Geneva last week, ailing and half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...
When he walked into the crowded hall where Israel's Council of State met, everybody rose and applauded. Premier Ben-Gurion, in tieless sport shirt, pointedly remained seated. The Promised Land which Weizmann had been spared to see was in a sense not his; the tough men-some in army khaki, some in black rabbinical hats-had little patience with the old man who still talked about "the traditional friendship between the Jewish people and Britain...
...Spirit of Peace. Yet even those who were prepared to sneer were strangely moved by Weizmann's homecoming. Half cynically and half devoutly, an Israeli newspaperman said: "After all, even Moses himself didn't make...
Would he be more than an honorary President? Said he last week: "I take myself for a type that would rather be something more than a figurehead." Weizmann proclaimed a conception of Zion far above the costive strivings of Israeli nationalism. Said he: "We are a small country, but a big people. We must not be satisfied with just having a country of our own. We must prove that we still possess the force that once gave the world moral law and social laws. Our relations with other peoples must be pervaded by the spirit of peace...