Word: zionism
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...soberer picture-a picture of an old Soviet propagandists' paradise, the rarely visited Jewish Autonomous Province of Birobidzhan on the northern border of Manchuria. Founded with great fanfare in 1934 as "an empty plot on which the Soviet Jews were to pioneer without getting mixed up with Zionism," Birobidzhan is today, as Frankel describes it, a sad little whistle stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad that "jet planes, hope, energy and momentum pass...
Fast as the Communists could pass the ammunition, Radio Baghdad fired back that Nasser was the honorary President of the Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
...quiet the Arabs, Russia's Izvestia declared that the Soviet Union would never think of alienating its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...
...critics of Missouri and the other dominant journalism schools, e.g., Northwestern, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, argue that the liberal arts major is more suited to the long haul of newspapering than the J-school man: his background is broader, better preparing him to cope with assignments from atomics to Zionism. Instead of taking journalism courses, says Managing Editor Al Friendly of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "a boy would be better off reading Carlyle or studying the pigmentation of butterfly wings...
...hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing soldiery. The battle scenes are well and cleanly done, but too often the author's flag-waving enthusiasm for Zionism diminishes rather than exalts the achievement of the Israelis, particularly when Uris pictures the Arabs either as witless dupes or as "the dregs of humanity, thieves, murderers, highway robbers, dope runners and white slavers...