Word: zionistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have read and greatly appreciated the treatises on the 14th Zionist Congress, now held in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 24-31). Your correspondents certainly deserve praise for presenting news so correctly and in so concise and vivid a manner; only one thing was to be viewed with alarm-the fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved...
Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...moment, it seemed that the whole Zionist movement might disrupt. But, finally, after long nights of committee meetings, a guarded resolution was passed declaring Dr. Weizmann to be the moral leader of Zionists-and, by implication, if he care to be it, president...
...result of the outside distractions, however, was to make the sessions of the Congress more harmonious than was expected, for there is a marked difference of opinion among Zionists as to the best course to pursue, and it was thought that a break might occur. On the one hand was Dr. Chain Weizmann, onetime President of the World Zionist Organization, who has the backing of American Jewry. His program has been for colonization of Palestine with sound business or "capitalistic" methods. Opposed to him was a fiery Jewish Fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, inhabitant of Paris. He wants all the land...
...Third Conference of Zionist Women opened...