Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
...like many another aging dictator, Crump considers himself a humanitarian and public benefactor, prefers not to remember the boisterous past. He loves to discuss the glories of Memphis, and is as sensitive as a surrealist painter to the slightest criticism...
Stressing that the Arabs had no objection to Jewish immigration on a humanitarian basis, Hashem pointed out that Jews are freely admitted and welcomed in other free Arab states. He objected to reports that Palestine was economically capable of supporting many more people than now live there...
Jews and Arabs face the hour of reckoning. Zionists who have been living with an ideal will have to demonstrate the sincerity of their humanitarian appeals by compromising that ideal for the present, and fighting for implementation of the report. If the Arabs are to hold even a whit of respect in the eyes of the world, they will have to heed the warning of the Committee: "We hope that . . . those who have opposed the admission of these unfortunate people into Palestine . . . will look upon the situation again, . . . at least that they will not make the position of these sufferers...
...their modern bondage toward the ancient promised Land. By thousands they fled from eastern Europe, where three-fourths of the Continent's 1,300,000 surviving Jews (not including those of Russia) have found no victory in Hitler's defeat.* Their exodus was illegal, clandestine, and humanitarian. A Polish Jewess explained why: "You know what Europe is to me? It's a cemetery. When I walk into a store and see soap on sale, I remember that this may be the body of my sister...