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More Trouble for Israel

madotte Is Called Pro-Arab •
rumen Pro-Israel Move Snags

New difficulties began to pile up this week for Israel.
Most of the obstacles appear to emanate from Washington,
where President Truman is encountering difficulties in put-
ting into effect a pro-Israel policy. The announcement that
permission will be given to mobilize 3,000 Americans to serve
UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte for the purpose of
enforcing peace also is .being viewed with grave apprehen-
sion. The suspicion directed at Count Bernadotte's inten-
tions with regard to Israel is a major cause for concern over
his acts and the endorsement that apparently is being giVen
by the U. S. State Department for the first draft of men.
who , may be used to disarm Israel.
(In Paris, en route to the Zionist Actions Committee
meeting in Israel, Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the
Zionist Organization of America, charged that Count Berna-
dotte is trying to obtain "face-saving" advantages for the
Arabs in order to prevent the collapse of the Arab League
and that the quick decision for the present truce was made
to prevent a crushing Arab defeat.)
According to Victor H. Bernstein, writing for the New
York Star, Secretary of State George C. Marshall has threat-
ened to resign if PIesident Truman will insist upon putting
into force the following three-point program: Granting of a
$100,000,000 loan to Israel, extension of de jure recognition
and support for Israel's expected application for membership
in the United Nations. Bernstein writes that Secretary Mar-
shall thinks it would be "improper" for the U. S. to "grant
full recognition to a provisional government."
Dr. Bernard JOseph, military governor of Jerusalem; has
expressed Israel's regrets rfo the U. S. and the . UN in response
to the protest filed regarding the wounding of Joseph
Przyowsky, U. S. consulate guard.

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Fighting Israeli's 'Nation Day': Government

leaders of Israel are shown (top) • on the

reviewing stand of the Tel Aviv Sports Stadium, taking the salute during the big military parade that
marked "Nation Day" during the celebration of the 44th anniversary of the death of Dr.: Theodor
Heal, founder of the modern Zionist movement. Left to right are Minister of Finance ELIEZER KAP-
LAN, Prime Minister DAVID BEN-GURION; Brigadier JAKOB DORI, Chief of Staff, and Minister of
Labor MORDECAI BENTOV. The bottom photo shows a general view of the Sports Stadium, jammed

with fighting men who demonstrated Israel's military strength.

The Dream Becomes Flesh

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Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok has filed a protest
with John Reedman, U. S. Secietary General Trygve Lie's
personal representative in Israel, over the seizure a few days
ago by the Egyptian government of 35 tons of Israeli goods
bound for the U. S. In the seized cargo- are chemical prod-
ucts, books and citron fruits .(esrogim) intended for Sukkoth.

Circle IsCompleted- by Narpin
eizma nn as President of Israe

Raised amid the anti-Semitic persecutions in Russia, Chaim Weizmann finally sees light and
hope for the fulfillment of his dream for a Jewish homeland_ in Palestine. Previous install-

ments in his thrilling life story told of his education; his scientific discoveries, one of which
helped Great. Britain win World War I; the Balfour Declaration and his part in winning it;
his never-ending fight for his people.
Now in this, the last chapter, the dream becomes flesh, the hope reality; Here,. indeed, in
thrilling words, the story of victory—one man's victory—is told.
By GEROLD FRANK

Lord Allenby, laying the cornerstone of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1918, amid
••the sound of cannon in the last days of World War I, had said: "This is an act of faith."
Chaim Weizmann had faith in Palestine; but to his faith he added works. In the great
political and economic task . of building the state-to-be, he was joined by Zionist leaders, both
men and women, in Great Britain, Europe, the United States and Palestine.
No history touching Israel would be complete without tribute to such men, for example, as
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David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, and Moshe Shertok, its Foreign Minister, and
many others.
History alone can assess the full importance of Zionist labors on various political and gov-
.ernmental fronts—particularly the tremendous work done by United States Zionists under
the leadership of Dr. Abba Hillel Silyer, chairman of • the American section of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, as this country in recent years played a greater and greater role in the
story.
That full history yet remains to be written.
Weizmann began the period of his official leadership of the Zionist movement in 1920
when he was elected President of the World Zionist Organization. In 1922 the League of .
Nations gave the Mandate for Palestine to Great Britain as a trust. She was to administer
Palestine and help build the Jewish National Home there within the framework of the Bal-
four Declaration. ,
Thus came about the international recognition sought by Herzl so many years before: the
nations of the world had now officially recognized the historic right of the Jews to return to
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Palestine.
Now began years in "which Weizmann, as Palestine's ambassador, accompanied by his
wife, Vera, travelled to the four corners of the earth.
His task was threefold: first, to collect money for Palestine; second, to win over those who

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Bound for Tel Aviv: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first

President of Israel, and his wife, Dr. Vera Weizmann, as they
sailed aboard the liner Mauretania for Cherbourg on the first
leg of their journey to the State of lirael. Said Dr . Weizrnann:
"The hard road is only beginning but with the help of God
we will succeed."

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