Word: zion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive for influence among the Arabs of the Middle east. In UNO Russia had stood behind Arab Syria and Lebanon in their dispute with France and Great Britain. Now Russia was reminding the Arab world that she did not support Zionism, in fact already had a substitute Zion. In Palestine, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, stated unequivocally: "It is perfectly useless to offer the Jews a substitute for Palestine...
...which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
Martyr's Crown. But as the early Mormons moved westward, across Ohio to Missouri and then to Illinois, harried from Zion to Zion, sometimes tarred and feathered, sometimes killed in skirmishes with gentiles, Impostor Joseph Smith came close to being a prophet. Smith (Biographer Brodie believes) gradually hypnotized himself as well as others. He saw himself now as a true Moses, and at the end, faced with the choice of flight or death by lynching, he wavered, then took death and a martyr's crown...
...dead issues. Fresh out of the U.S. Navy, he was hired by Old Henry in 1917 to guard the Ford plants against saboteurs. Then he took over the job of guarding the Ford family from kidnappers. He was unable to protect Mr. Ford from swallowing whole the Protocols of Zion,* but kept him from making any more such mistakes. Often, when Mr. Ford blurted something to reporters which might get him in hot water, Bennett would step in with a "Now what Mr. Ford meant was-" and tone down the statement...
...Protocols of the Elders of Zion, purporting to be plans for a vast "Jewish conspiracy" to establish an empire throughout the world, were first published in Russia in 1905. Although they were conclusively proved to be fraudulent, they have ever been one of the most successful of anti-Semitic weapons...