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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria three months ago, grizzled old Chaim Weizmann had lunch with young Henry Ford II. Israel's President spoke of his country's desperate need for motor transportation. With only 30 miles of the rickety Haifa-to-Cairo coastal railroad operating, Israel had to rely almost entirely on highway transport, and therefore needed the U.S. auto industry's help. Weizmann's plea presented Ford a double opportunity: to wipe out the last unpleasant memories of Grandfather Henry Ford's involvement in anti-Semitism,* and at the same time to swing...
...Israel, a British legation official dropped in to visit Dr. Chaim Weizmann, chatted pleasantly and left after a while with a signed paper that finally relieved Israel's President of his British citizenship...
...Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...
...movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber...
...Chaim Weizmann was packing his bags for a flight to the U.S. to be guest of honor this month at a $250-a-plate "Salute to the First President of Israel...