Quote#Politics & Power
... Chaim Weizmann, the scientist, the great Zionist, the indomitable…
Quote byJan Christiaan Smuts · 1870–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: In November 1949, as quoted by W. K. Hancock in SMUTS 2: The Fields of Force 1919-1950, p. 520.
English (original)
... Chaim Weizmann, the scientist, the great Zionist, the indomitable leader who, after his people had been all but wiped out in the greatest purge of history, assembled the remnants, led them back to the ancient homeland in face of the heaviest opposition, and welded them once more into a sovereign state among the nations. Surely his achievement bears comparison with that of Moses!
— Jan Christiaan Smuts
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