Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...
Democratic Congressmen from cities with large populations of Jewish voters wavered before a flurry of indignation stirred up by recent British policy in Palestine. New York City's Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a Zionist leader, set the minds of some at ease with a courageous statement supporting the loan on its own merits. Republicans from isolationist midwestern districts, however, felt no pro-loan pressure from Stassenite successes in Minnesota's primary (see Political Notes...
...week Anglo-U.S. friendship was more strained than at any time since German bombs began falling on London six years ago. Isolationists were licking their chops because, in the British loan debate, practical U.S. efforts toward world cooperation met their severest postwar challenge. The reason: an all-out Zionist campaign to smear Britain...
President Truman last week told Zionists that it was "his determination" that the British move against the underground should not delay "a policy of transferring 100,000 Jewish immigrants to Palestine with all dispatch." The nettled British promptly let it be known that in that case the U.S. would have to send troops to help keep peace in the Middle East. That the U.S. could or would send troops to Palestine was most unlikely. President Truman, with the Zionist outcry in his ears today, could well imagine the din from other pressure groups tomorrow if U.S. soldiers were killed there...