Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zionism was absorbed in its own internal conflict. Massive, 72-year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
...newspaperman and current member of the Harvard Zionist Group's Executive Board, I wish to take exception to all except the first sentence of Robert L. Wald's letter in Friday's Crimson. The phrase "typical Arab viewpoint" is informative, not editorial in nature and is used to better describe to readers who may not be thoroughly familiar with the sides in the controversy just what group is being represented by the speaker. This is a perfectly legitimate journalistic device. "At least in Hashem's opinion" is included for the obvious purpose of preventing a statement, printed as an indirect...
...Aviv, Palestine's modern all-Jewish city, streets are customarily named after Zionist heroes (Theodor Herzl, Baron Rothschild, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, etc.). Last week, when the city fathers pondered street names for a new suburb, a councilman suggested: Why not name the streets after the Ten Commandments...
Formed with the purpose of making students aware of Zionist problems and ideals, the group is a political rather than a religious organization, and is open to student's of all faiths...
During the past few months, the Harvard Zionist Group has sponsored a series of lectures and discussions, led by authorities on Palestine, which aimed at clarifying the often confused and emotion filled issues. Richard Crossman, Labor Member of Parliament and vigorous opponent of the present British foreign policy, told of the fight for free immigration to the Holy Land within the British Government in a talk jointly sponsored by the group and the Harvard Liberal Union...