Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resigned. Chaim Weizmann, 45, English industrial chemist; as president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency; because Great Britain last week decided to inhibit further Jewish immigration into Palestine and the buying of Palestine lands by Jews. He hinted that headquarters of both organizations would be moved from England...
Died. Hans Herzl, 40, son of the late political Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into...
Jews were prompt to approve the Mandates Commission's findings. On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America, Robert Szold cabled Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League: "To the Jews' of America the commission's restatement of the objects of the Palestine mandate and its emphatic finding that the mandatory [Britain] has positive and constructive obligations to devote itself actively to the establishment of a Jewish National Home, is a message of hope and encouragement...
...others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms. His life is literary, not political, yet active when the two conflict, for his was the leading test case under the rigorous Austrian muzzlelaw for critics. Works the U. S. may sometime read are: Prinzessin Anna (novel), Martin Overbeck (romance), Kinder u. Freude (drama...
Julian William Mack, 64, U. S. Circuit Judge, Honorary Chairman of the Administrative Committee, Chairman of the sub-committee on relations with the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency...