Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance in a London suburb. She still looked forward to touring munitions factories with Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, interviewing exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia...
...with the problem of bettering the Jewish position all over the world and especially in America. Cooperating with all sorts of committees for the preservation of civil liberties, it works, first of all, to protect the Jew from the dangers of fascism and reaction. It is, of course, a Zionist organization. But this problem, too, it treats on a practical basis. It does not advocate transporting every Jew to Palestine. Rather, it confines itself to raising money to buy land in Palestine and to sending there many of its ablest members to investigate and help this project. But its most...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
...look meagre and the War Office was desperate. Acetone was skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into the water a few yards from the guns. Then it was learned that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the great Zionist, had obtained acetone as a fermentation product in corn mash. After that with huge corn supplies in the U. S. and Canada, British cordite makers got along better...
...Arabs had won a glorious victory in the British Parliament, and it was a bitter day for those many Jews who had labored so that-as Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann once put it-"Palestine should be just as Jewish as America is American and England is English." Malcolm Macdonald had passed his test...