Word: zionistic
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...Mountaintop. He withdrew into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...
Died. Colonel John Henry Patterson, 79, zealous, Irish-born Protestant who became a Zionist leader; in Los Angeles. Famed as soldier and big-game hunter, Colonel Patterson commanded the British Army's World War I Jewish Legion, enjoyed the esteem of Fellow Hunter Teddy Roosevelt...
Sandwiches v. Tommy Guns. The official Zionist movement was not stormy enough for Hecht. He preferred the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, headed by blue-eyed Palestinian Peter Bergson. In the U.S., the Hebrew Committee is backstopped by something called the American League for a Free Palestine, of which Hecht became cochairman...
...Zionist organs charge that all this talk has not put any refugees ashore in Palestine. The Zionist resistance movement, Haganah, claims that dozens of its ships have reached Palestine waters (where 30 have been seized by the British), whereas only one league-supported ship, referred to in Hecht's press releases as the Ben Hecht, ever got far enough to be seized...
Flirtation Abandoned? Russia abandoned (for the time being) her flirtation with the Arab states, smothered the last Arab hope for an immediate victory. "It would be unjust," said Andrei Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted...