Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain stalled for time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under...
Partly in answer to the effective protests that have come from many ardent, powerful, articulate friends of Zionism in the U. S. against more concessions to the Arabs, the Government emphasized that the "international character" of the Palestine mandate would be kept in mind...
Meanwhile, Zionism acquired its latest and most persuasive propagandist in William B. Ziff, publisher of the U. S. magazines Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, Radio News, Amazing Stories. In The Rape of Palestine,† Author Ziff brushes aside or categorically denies all Arab arguments, directs a Zola-like series of accusations at Great Britain. His assertions...
Revisionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinskv, Russian-born journalist, poet, essayist, who operates in Poland, preaches terrorism, believes in a militant Zionism to be defended by Jewish arms. Banned from Palestine, having left the World Zionist Organization three years ago, frequently called the Jewish fascist leader, Jabotinsky and his methods were decried by official Palestinian Jewry. Zionist-supporting Hebrew newspapers called for self-restraint, the chief rabbinate of Palestine condemned reprisals, the Jewish Agency for Palestine asked that Jews practice "discipline and constructive work" as the "best reply to Arab terrorism." Before London's House of Commons, Secretary of State...
Principal spokesman for musical Zionism is fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...