Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was sponsored by the American Veterans Committee, the Radcliffe League for Democracy, and the University and Radcliffe Zionist Societies...
...Zionist movement has never been a communistic one. In the last elections to the Jewish National Council in Palestine the Communists managed to elect one delegate out of 600. The strongest political party in Palestine--Mapai--is a labor party, but so is Mr. Bevin's. The Soviet attitude towards Zionism has always been hostile. After the revolution Zionism as a political movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough...
Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society...
Brooklyn's Representative Emanuel Celler, a longtime Zionist, demanded from the floor of the House: "What goes on here?" He thought he spotted the man responsible for the anti-partition talk: Loy Henderson, chief of the State Department's Near East and African Division. He said that Henderson was "enthusiastic but misguided," and accused him of "intriguing behind the scenes to void decisions made on higher levels." For his known opposition to partition, Henderson had been the target for Zionist attacks before. But Celler's charge of "intriguing" was wide of the mark...
...Zionists, who needed not only arms but men, were split on methods of getting able-bodied new immigrants. Dr. Moshe Sneh, Polish-born member of the Jewish Agency Executive and leader of the Zionist underground Haganah during most of World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American...