Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Half-Century, I offer . . . Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Dr. Herzl's movement, launched in 1897, when he predicted the re-establishment brought of the Jewish state "50 years later," brought to fruition the greatest scheme in behalf of a persecuted people . . . Dr. Herzl was the half-century's counterpart of a Biblical prophet...
...Augarten finally took off after finals in 1948 without telling his family he was going. After landing in Italy he proceeded to Czechoslovakia and trained for several weeks. The Czechs, he explained, are helping Palestine, but realize that Communism can make no headway against Zionism, which in a nationalistic movement...
Thus spoke the founder of modern Zionism, the bearded Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl, some years before he was buried at Vienna's Döblinger Friedhof in 1904. Last week, the body of Theodor Herzl was given a ceremonial reburial in the city that he had remembered without delight...
Last week, the Interior Ministry announced that Rajk and 19 accomplices had been arrested on charges of "spying for a foreign power." "It was the vigilance of Comrade Rakosi," the Budapest daily Szabad Nep confided, that uncovered "the background of the Rajk legend . . . Trotskyism, Fascism, Zionism and anti-Sovietism, that was the ideological sink" which had spawned the treachery. For Communists who were still safe at home, Nep offered a little fatherly advice: "The important thing (to remember) is that treason against the party, deviation from the Marxist-Leninist line, is a steep slope from which plunging into the imperialist...
Died. Andrew Lawrence Somers, 54, longtime Democratic Representative from New York (since 1925) who helped steer F.D.R.'s gold-devaluation bill through the House (1934); of a liver ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Roman Catholic Somers was one of Zionism's most active champions in Congress, led the fight for a $150 million loan to Israel...