MIDDLE EAST: A Long Road

Last week a weary, gentle man, who has been a citizen of two nations, sailed from New York to become President of a third. Israel's President Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia, had served Britain brilliantly as a chemist in World War I, and had lost a son in the R.A.F. in World War II. But his journey would not take him through his second homeland. "To our great sorrow," explained Mrs. Weizmann, "the attitude of Great Britain has prevented us from going to London . . . We don't wish to come to England on sufferance."

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