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...callers, he canceled his four out-of-town dates for April-a speech at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work...
Although last year's United Nations resolution demanded that Jerusalem be made an international city, the Israelis pointedly chose it for the opening ceremony of their newly elected Constituent Assembly. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, last week solemnly opened the Assembly. When the band struck up Hatikvah (the Israeli national anthem) during the ceremonies, the tired old (74) man seemed off in a dream; a military aide had to nudge him before he came to life again. Facing the Assembly, he wept. Said he: "It is our people that once gave the whole world a spiritual...
Three days later, the Knesset elected Chaim Weizmann Israel's first President (so far, his office has been provisional). He was given a ten-inch silver key to the city and a pair of 17th Century scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon across the road leading to Jerusalem. For Weizmann, as for his Zionists, it had been a long road...
...noon, two pious Jews chosen by the rabbinate blew the shofar (ram's horn). Weizmann repeated the presidential oath with arm outstretched toward the Assembly, which rose on signal and shouted...
What were President Weizmann's hopes for the new state? That "God will look down benignly on His children who after a long wandering have come home to serve Him with a psalm on their lips and a spade in their hands." He was also wistfully hop ing that Israel might still find its way back to friendship with his old love, Britain...