Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Chaim Weizmann was a boy in Pinsk, Russia, he had already found his cause: he walked from door to door, collecting kopeks for a Jewish homeland in Zion. When he was eleven, he wrote to his teacher that the Zionist goal must be accomplished with British...
...Spirit of Bond Street. Weizmann greatly admired the British, was often accused by his fellow Zionists of imitating them (he wore Bond Street shirts and acquired a marked habit of understatement in his speech). In 1946, when he favored the British partition plan, David Ben-Gurion opposed him; Weizmann was forced out as head of the Zionist organization...
...preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews...
...when Zionist leaders in Tel Aviv were drafting Israel's Proclamation of Independence, they got into a sharp dispute over whether to mention God in their text. The story, which leaked out last week, revealed much that the world did not know of the struggle between religious Zionists and secular Zionists for dominant influence in the new state. Very clear was the fact that modern Israel bore little relation to the biblical Jewish theocracy...
...Amos, who was a major in the British Army, later a Haganah fighter, recently married a British Christian. Ben-Gurion did not hold her faith against her; he gathered up an armload of Jewish histories and Zionist tracts, mailed them to her so that she would understand her adopted country...