Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power in Germany and Felix Warburg threw all of the Committee's energies into the task of helping Jews move out of the reach of Adolf Hitler. While Felix helped thousands of Jews to leave. Max and Fritz remained, however, in Hamburg. Felix Warburg was no ardent political Zionist. He gave great sums to Jews in Palestine but he never favored setting up a separate Jewish state. As chairman of the Jewish Agency's administrative committee he tried to get Arabs and Jews to cooperate. At the Zurich meeting of the Jewish Agency last summer he bitterly opposed...
...picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...
...last week nearly 10,000 Jews crowded the auditorium of Zurich's vast Tonhalle to attend the 20th biennial World Zionist Congress. Never before has a Zionist congress had such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
Argument at Zurich was between those who believed that any scheme to divide the Holy Land was morally wrong, and those led by the world's best-known Zionist, chin-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who were willing to accept the British scheme as a basis for bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph...
...sooner was this out of the way than Treasurer Elieser Kaplal of the Zionist Executive Committee blithely presented a scheme to settle 200,000 more Jews in Palestine within the next three years, notwithstanding the fact that the partition scheme promised sharply to check Jewish immigration...