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...Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
Last week, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, now 74, ailing, and President of the Provisional Government of Israel, gave the world his life story (Trial and Error; Harper; $5). It was also the life story of Zionism. In & out of the action weaves a dramatic subplot: the ironic love story of Weizmann's devotion to Great Britain, which began with high-minded platonic exchanges and ended with bloody fighting in the desert, where (between them) the British and the Zionists had produced an infant state...
...Factories. Like the movement he headed for over 20 years, Chaim Weizmann was born in one of the darkest corners of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the youngest nation in the world...
...Jews accept the order? There was no sign of it in Tel Aviv. Cried one government spokesman: "Absolutely astounding ... a shameful proposal." The U.N., he said, had come "dangerously close to the prerogatives . . . held by God of quickening the dead." Even Israel's gentle, scholarly President Chaim Weizmann was moved to truculence. "No force on earth," he declared, "can remove the Jews from the Negeb, short of carrying them bodily-and they are a heavy burden...