Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...
India's loquacious, figure-fumbling Asaf Ali had the greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
...Arabs made the most of the occasion. Cried Iraq's Columbia-educated Fadhil Jamali: "At this moment Palestine is being invaded. ... A part of our home is on fire." The Arab delegations repeatedly wandered from the procedural debate to demand immediate freedom of Palestine as an Arab state. Zionist leaders writhed, but since they had no official status, could not answer. (This week the Assembly decided that the Jewish Agency for Palestine should be allowed to speak before the Assembly's Political and Security Committee, which includes all 55 of the United Nations...
Robert M. Cipes; Student Council Committee on Extra-Curricular Affairs; Harvard Dramatic Club; Spanish Club; Harvard Zionist Society Executive Board...