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...Arabs had won a glorious victory in the British Parliament, and it was a bitter day for those many Jews who had labored so that-as Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann once put it-"Palestine should be just as Jewish as America is American and England is English." Malcolm Macdonald had passed his test...
...Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who contributed synthetic acetone to World War I, announced: "In spite of the White Paper [establishing an Arab-dominated State in Palestine] the Jews support British Democracy in the present darkest hours...
...Legend: The War Office reportedly negotiated the promise in return for the TNT formula of Jewish Chemist Chaim Weizmann, longtime Zionist leader...
...Conference" was already off on the wrong foot. Arabs refused to sit in the same room with the Jews.* On the first day the Arabs appealed to Allah, the Jews to Jehovah, and the British, diplomatic as ever, to common sense. Zionist Spokesman Dr. Chaim Weizmann declared that under the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations mandate, the Jews have a material and moral right to a permanent national home in Palestine, particularly now when the refugee problem is so critical. Arab Spokesman Jamal al Husseini said the mandate was a flop, that Arabs had squatter's rights...
Argument at Zurich was between those who believed that any scheme to divide the Holy Land was morally wrong, and those led by the world's best-known Zionist, chin-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who were willing to accept the British scheme as a basis for bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph...