Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain...
...note"-so simpleheartedly unaware of the quality of men and events as to use the adjectives "potent" and "sturdy" in this connection without its tongue in its cheek? Does TIME really not know that Rabbi Wolsey and his fellows represent a negligible minority within our honorably and stanchly Zionist Reform rabbinate? Is TIME so guileless that it does not recognize the intellectual quality of Rabbi Goldenson's words: "Zionists and the pleaders for a Jewish Army indirectly play into the hands of the anti-Semites?" Is TIME unaware of the century and a quarter of Jewish history during which...
...Opposition. Yet few of the non-Jewish pleaders for the Jewish Army presumably realized last week that they had taken sides in a dispute which finds Jews themselves in sharp disagreement. In Philadelphia last fortnight, a potent group of non-Zionist Jews met under sturdy, deliberate Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia to form a new organization called the American Council for Judaism. Its credo, as stated by Rabbi Wolsey: "[We] will seek to identify and define the Jew as a member of a religious community and nothing else. . . . We are definitely opposed to a Jewish State, a Jewish flag...
...Army Committee claims 85,000 Palestinian and 100,000 stateless Jews of military age are waiting to volunteer. But the Jerusalem Haolam, a Zionist publication, recently placed the number available in Palestine...
...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...