Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting Hillel president Martin h. Brownstein '56 told the CRIMSON that "when we realized the Arab delegate would not speak on the same platform as an Israeli representative, a Boston Israeli group offered to compromise and put up an American Zionist as a cross-examiner after the speeches...
Duncan H. Cameron '56, president of the UN Council said last night that he had in no way compromised with the Boston Israeli group although he had agreed it would be a good idea to have an American Zionist as a questioner. He added, however, that he thought the Syrian delegate, Asha, had been entirely within his rights in refusing to allow the questioner...
...Jack B. Tenney, 56, whose political record is far from comely. Tenney represents the big 38th District (which takes in Los Angeles County, with more than 4,000,000 people). He was chairman of the legislature's McCarthyite Red-hunting committee and once wrote a Christian Nationalist tract, Zionist Network. Mrs. Younger has decided to run against...
...struggle to create the state of Israel brought forth three great modern Zionist leaders; each had his day and his role. Chaim Weizmann, No. 1, was the gentlemanly persuader, pleading eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action. Then in stepped No. 2, David Ben-Gurion, the roughshod warrior-intel lectual, the visionary with a rifle who physically established Israel. Last week, to succeed the retiring Ben-Gurion as Premier, the Mapai, Israel's biggest party, nominated a man of quite different stripe: Moshe Sharett, 59, Israel's Foreign Minister...
...life, though all Israel called, Ben-Gurion would not heed. He had never failed it before: he went to Palestine in 1906, a boy of 20 from a little Polish village, to help drain the marshes and plant the citrus trees of the promised homeland. To further the Zionist cause, he became an editor and pamphleteer, then a corporal in General Allenby's army, which liberated Palestine from the Turks in World War I. He helped found Histadrut, Israel's largest labor federation, and became Zionism's John L. Lewis; he headed the Jewish Agency, shadow government...