2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Press Photo, 8-1/2” x 7-1/2” by Photo Trends, NYC shows a young Chaim Weizmann, leader of the World Zionist Movement (and considered the father of Israel) with the British Ambassador to the United States. The teletype clip provides the importance of this photo, In part, Chaim Weizmann .. was introduced to President Roodevelt by ... Lord Lothian. Weizman said that the President predicted a solution to the Palestine question would be evolved after the present war. He has been conferring with former Justice Louis Brandeis and other leaders of the Zionist Movement ...” President Roosevelt’s discussion with the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann during their meeting on February 8, 1940 was in response to a question from Roosevelt about the possibility of Jews finding refuge in places other than Palestine. Weizmann explained at some length that only Palestine would do as a place to which Jews could go and call their own. Roosevelt said that Louis Brandeis had told him that Palestine could take in two million Jews. The president raised the possibility of compensating the Arabs in some way. In raising this question, the president, from all available evidence, was thinking of two procedures. On the one hand, many of the Arabs in Palestine would be moved out and compensated for this; on the other hand, the Arabs in the rest of the Middle East would not only become independent of their British and French masters but would be in a federation that was to include a Jewish state of Palestine The federation project is best discussed in the context of Churchill’s view of the future of Palestine; what is significant in this connection is that both Weizmann and Lord Lothian, the British ambassador who accompanied him on this occasion, reacted positively to the concept.
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