Word: zion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he did become the ruler of the Old City, though not of the Jewish-held modern town. In the morning two aged rabbis, Clutching their, long black robes about them and waving white flags, picked their way through the rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
...putting all the emphasis on partition, the U.S. had evaded certain other moral responsibilities, particularly to refugees in Europe. Congressmen had consistently refused to consider the Stratton bill, which would have admitted 400,000 D.P.s to the U.S. For refugee Jews, Zion had been their only hope. To the Arabs it looked as if the U.S. preferred to see the Jews of Europe dumped into Palestine. The New York Times summed up: "A series of moves which has seldom been matched for ineptness...
While a jubilant world Jewry acclaimed the victory of partition (see FOREIGN NEWS), a quieter celebration went on last week in a modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...
Another full-length film, The Great Betrayal (Screencraft; Idea Film), concentrates on the incalculable labor that has gone into raising up Zion out of wasteland. It is photographed harshly and powerfully, and cut in the manner more brilliantly developed by Sergei Eisenstein. Despite its repetitiousness, the best of the film is an impressive-and exhausting-screen poem about hard work, and the profound sense of identity with a piece of the world that grows...
...robins or wrens to set free on Annunciation Day, was quieted down; birds were rarely set free nowadays -for one thing, they served as food, and for another, the symbolism of freedom involved was frowned upon. The Kremlin chimes no longer played Glory to our God in Zion; instead they played the Soviet Anthem. But the people still clung to their saints, with whom Moscow's new masters have, of late, tried to make an uneasy peace...