“What do you think of Zionism? Do you want the Jews to go to Palestine?” George Bernard Shaw was asked one day. His reply was: “No What would we do without their brains?”
This view of the late great author, written in his own handwriting, was discovered today in a small booklet donated to the forthcoming international auction of rare books and manuscripts to be held in London in behalf of a fund-raising campaign to send Jewish youths to Israel. More than 350 items have been collected for the auction.
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