Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts & Fancies. The inaudible facts were simple. It was true that the Jews were fleeing Poland-fleeing the memories of past terror and the reality of present hardship. It seemed true that Zionist "underground railroads" were helping them. It was not true that most of the refugees were well-fed or rosy-cheeked...
Faced with critical decisions, the Arab League Council prepared to meet in Cairo this week, the Zionist Organization executive council in Jerusalem the following week. Three British divisions were standing...
Orgy in Egypt. Two days later the Arabs struck in Egypt, a country noted for its tolerance of minorities. In Cairo, Alexandria and other towns, anti-Zionist demonstrations ended as indiscriminate orgies of looting, rioting, burning. Cairo's one-day toll: several dead, 230 injured (including 90 Egyptian policemen). In Alexandria another 200 were hurt. In both cities scores of foreign stores were damaged. Egypt's firm, tight-lipped Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, and its British Acting Police Commandant, Major General T. W. Fitzpatrick, were angry but optimistic...
Died. Henrietta Szold, 84, Baltimore-born "grand old lady" of Jewry, founder of Hadassah, women's Zionist organization, who spent the last 25 years in Palestine, energetically directing Jewish resettlement work; of pneumonia; in Jerusalem...
...Conferred with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Zionist Emergency Council...