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Warrior With a Dream
The Life Story of
Dr. Chaim Weizmann
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Installment One
This is the story of a dream, borne ceaselessly in the minds
of men for more than 2,000 years—and it is the story of a man.
The man and the dream are inseparable.
For though this dream burned like a flame in the hearts of
the persecuted and the forgotten, it was given to this man to lead
a generation in making the dream flesh, to clothe it in hope, to
breathe into it life ...
Across the chasm of 20 centuries, Fate flung the mantle of
Moses, who first led the Children of Israel into the Promised Land,
to fall upon the shoulders of this somber-eyed man with the mas-
sive poet's head: Chaim Weizmann, statesman, scientist, builder
of the Jewish Commonwealth, who, in his 73rd year became the
first President of the Republic of Israel.
This is the story of Chaim Weizmann.
By GEROLD FRANK
Flip back the pages of the years, and let the calendar fall open,
say, at November, 1874. The p!ace is Byelorussia, in the western part
of the Russian Empire, and you are a Jew of Pinsk.
Now Pinsk is a town, an extraordinary town, set in the vast, lonely
marshes of Eastern Poland, so extraordinary that there are jokes even
today to the effect that Pinsk really never existed, but was a figMent
of the imagination—so many there were who could say, with a proud
yet bitter smile:
'I am a Jew from Pinsk."
Bred People of Great Faith
Those-- who said it had reason to be both proud and bitter.
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History of Jews
They were proud because Pinsk was one of the best known of
Jewish cities in Russia, distinguished for its scholars and men of
learning. The people of Pinsk were principally struggling merchants,
given to large larnilies and small incomes and great faith in God.
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RHODES
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TEL AVIV (JTA).—Moshe Shertok, Israel's Foreign Minister, on Tuesday handed to
Count Folke Bernadotte the Israeli government's rejection of the "peace proposals." • The
Israel Provisional Government Monday night rejected the plan by a vote of 27 against and
four abstaining. '
Unless further discussions are to be based on Israel's sovereignty, the Jewish State does
not intend to continue true deliberations.
Jewish- leaders are suspicious that enforcement of demilitarization of Jerusalem by 1,000
UN armed troops and demilitarization of certain sections of Haifa may mean a new occu- ,.
pation.
A new twist was added to the complex Palestine tangle on Tuesday when Riadh es
Sohl, Moslem Premier of Lebanon, notified ,UN mediator Bernadotte that the Lebanese
government has assumed full responsibility for military actions taken by Fawzi el Ka -.
wakji, so-Called national liberation
army. Kawakji's forces have been operating in defi-
ti
ance of the Palestine truce in the Nazareth pocket intermittently since the cease fire order,
after Kawakji had proclaimed his refusal to recognize the truce.
The Lebanese official report followed an earlier pronouncement by the Arab League
that its member states refused to take responsibility for any actions by Kawakji's forces;
The UN mediator now will have to decide whether the Lebanese government has broken.
the truce by condoning Kawakji's activities. Previously the mediator's representatives
had informed Israeli authorities that they were free to take action against Kawakji and on
Monday the Israeli Foreign Office informed Col. Thorde Bunde, Bernadotte's deputy at
Haifa, that Jews proposed to take action against the Kawakji units.
Behind the surprise Lebanese move is a new line-up of Arab forces against Abdullah
of Transjordania. The new _anti-Abdullah front consists of Lebanese Moslems under
Riadh es Sohl, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Kawakji, who is on bad terms with Abdullah
since Abdullah's refusal to treat him as an equal, and Syrian President Shukri el7Kuwa-.
tli, who apparently is playing a political line independent of his cabinet and especially of
the policy pursued by his foreign minister Faris el=Khouri, at .Lake Success.
(Speaking at the closing dinner meeting of the 51st annual egnvention of the Zionist Or-
ganization (4! Ahittitt.h. it Pittsburgh, Monday, Aubrey Eban, Israeli representative at the •
UN, declared that the Provisional .Government. of Israel. will reject the:propos,a),,of UN me-
diator Bernadotte to transfer JeruSalein to Arab rule. He declared: "The suggestion to en-
throne King Abdullah in Jerusalem is an obvious affront to religion, history and interna-
tional law. Here is a city with sacred associations, all derived ultimately from its Jewish
origin. The. Jews of Jerusalem shall never be citizens of an Arab state. If we do not believe
the UN wants to allow itself to be jockeyed out of: its proudest responsibility, the Jews of
Jerusalem will be morally free to. take steps as their vital interests dictate." -
(Asserting that "I share with many of my friends the delays and bloodshed and hesita-
tions that have occurred," Gen. John H. Hilldring told the ZOA delegates that "I must say
as a friend of Israel and as an honest commentator that the results that have been achieved
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