Word: zionistic
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...moneyed Jews," TIME meant to distinguish Palestine Jews as a class from Palestine Arabs, who are definitely not moneyed. Nevertheless, many a wealthy Jew, who made his money and home elsewhere, has given generously to the Zionist movement, among them: Felix Warburg ($50,000-$100,000 a year); the late Nathan Strauss ($2,000,000); Maurice Levin ($50,000); Israel Sieff ($250,000); Simon Marks ($250,000); also the late Baron de Rothschild...
...Lucerne, Switzerland last week gathered 500 Jews from 53 nations, delegates to the 19th biennial World Zionist Congress. With Laborite and Liberal Zionists in the saddle, the Congress elected as its president goateed Dr. Chaim Weizmann, British industrial chemist who was ousted by extreme Right Wingers four years ago (TIME, July 27, 1931). Pleased with this year's record-breaking influx of 60,000 Jews into Palestine, and with the homeland's current business boom, the Zionists clamored for more immigrants, pondered how to head off Great Britain's plan to convene a Palestine Legislature in which...
...come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge" and "cowardice," by reversing its stand on Zionism, resolving: "We are persuaded that acceptance or rejection of the Zionist program should be left to the determination of individual members...
...undersigned, a Jew and a Zionist, believes it necessary to clear the British administration from this certainly undeserved accusation. No one desires to place the British in this uncomfortable position of resting under anyone's thumb. It is true that Jews and Zionists throughout the world would like the British to fulfill the obligations which they have contracted in the matter of the Jewish national home, and for which they are responsible to the League of Nations and to the United States. Unfortunately, Great Britain has seen fit to disregard largely these obligations and to place obstacles...
...fact, country-wide elections for a Legislative Council were held by the administration as early as 1923, but the Arab population abstained from voting, demanding an open repudiation by Great Britain of its obligations concerning the Jewish national home. That far even the British administration, despite its anti-Zionist attitude, was not prepared...