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Dr. Weizmann's Life Story

Israel's First President
Meets Dr. Theodor Herzl

SECOND INSTALLMENT

In the first installment last week was recorded the early boy-
hOod, the family and background of Chaim Weizmann. The author
described the anti-Semitism which made life almost impossible for
the Jews of Russia; told of Weizmann's schooling, his intense hope
that some day he would see the Jewish people free and in dignity
in the ancestral home, Palestine.

By GEROLD FRANK
. It was the night of Passover, in the year 18g0, in the tiny
village of Motele, Russia.
- The large Weizmann family—father, mother, 15 sons and
daughters—are seated about the Seder table. They are cele-
brating, as Jews have celebrated through the years, the
deliverance on this very night 20 centuries before, of the Chil-
dren of Israel from Egyptian bondage. In honor of the occa-
sion, the sons and daughters have returned from distant places
and the family is one again.

Raided by Czar's Troops

Suddenly, there is the sound of heavy boots outside. Rifle
butts pound at the Weizmann door. A stentorian voice,roars:
• "Open up, Jews!"
One of the boys hurries to the door and pulls it open. A
squad of Russian soldiers, the soldiers of Czar Alexander III,
most anti-Semitic of rulers, marches in, guns drawn. A lieu-
tenant looks about the room with a contemptuous eye.
"Get away from that table," he says. "Stand - along the
wall. Put up your hands."
The Weizmanns obey. They are Jews in Czarist Russia, a.
country notorious for its police state brutality. The Weiz-
mann boys are students, and students are doubly suspect by
the Czar.
thedieutenant turns to one of his men.
a
"Sear4h them," he orders.
The soldier leaps to his task, going - roughly down the line
until he reaches young Chaim Weizmann, then 16, a dark,
intense boy with fiery eyes and the manner of a free man.
Young Weizmann glares at him and moves as if to take a
threatening step forward.

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Israel Rejects Bernaottes
Appeasement Offers; Retain
Advantages in Freedom fight

By Jewish News Special Correspondents in Tel Aviv and at Lake Success

Resentment ran high this week in the State of Israel, at Lake Success, in DP camps and
Jewish communities throughout the country against the statement of Count Folke Berna-
dotte, UN mediator., whose report is interpreted as corroborating charges made by Israeli
spokesmen at Lake Success that he is biased in favor of the Arabs.
Count Bernadotte called upon the Security Council to order a halt in Palestine fighting
to make the war "prohibitively unprofitable for the Arab states" and warned against try
ing to enforce a political . settlement.
The UN mediator's report stated that since partition is the only political settle-
ment recommended by the UN that the world organization should act to halt blood-
shed and to refrainsfrom using armed force to implement partition. He said that if the
war is stopped through UN action an eventual peaceful settlement is possible.
The crux of .his,report was that "if armed force is forbidden in the settlement of the
problem and it is made prohibitively unprofitable for Arab states employing it there will be
in Palestine a Jewish community with a separate cultural and political existence, a Jew;-
ish State Whose strength, prosperity and capacity for economic and social development
by admission of its own leaders must largely depend upon its ability to cultivate friendly
relations with Arab neighbors. If employment of armed force is not forbidden the issue of
a Jewish State must be settled on the battlefield." -
Unless there is prompt UN action, prospects for - further mediation will be dimmed,
Bernadotte said. Stating that Israel now is exercising all attributes of complete sovereignty,
he added that "its future may be assessed as uncertain and if it survived the war its secu-
rity will likely present a . serious problem for a time to come. His report describes the peo-
ple of Israel as "intensely nationalistic and apparently fearless in face of the Arab threat."
Departing for the first time from his usual practice of lumping Jews and Arabs together
as jointly responsible for the failure to renew the truce, Bernadotte said that the Arab re-
fusal of his suggestions was "more categorical than the Jewish."
On the question of his territorial suggestion he said he departed from the parti-
tion boundaries because the independent Arab state envisioned last November had not
emerged and he therefore was faced with having to redraw the; map to diminish the
number of points of potential friction to give both Arabs and Jews a greater sense of
security within their respective borders.
He had proposed that Jerusalem should go to the Arabs because it stands in the heart
of Arab territory and he said that even' in the November 29 decision it was agreed that
the. "question of the status of Jerusalem is separate from that of the establishment. of
Jewish State boundaries." He said that Transjordan has been designated to take over the
Arab sections and Jerusalem because of common interests and common currency and close
past associations.
(Continued on Page 5)

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—Drawing by Burns Jenkins

burst into the Weizmann home on the night of Passover, in 1890, in Motele, Russia, as the
A SCENE THAT CHAIM WE1ZMANN NEVER FORGOT: Czarist soldiers
pockets.
gamily Was observing the Seder. Chaim Weizmann, then 16, never forge* that night—the family . lined up like criminals, grioning Russian soldier searching his

