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#54179 On the Eve?
by TIME staff in TIME, 3 May 1948
While U.N. talked, the Jews were carving Palestine with a sword. In a whirlwind week they seized Haifa, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans le ...

#54767 Faltering Steps
by TIME staff in TIME, 3 May 1948
With three weeks to go before the British mandate expires, U.N. was frantically seeking for a workable plan for Palestine. The Security Council appointed a truce commission to try to persuade Arabs and Jews to stop their war. That was almost cer ...

#54794 Like Old Times
by TIME staff in TIME, 3 May 1948
As in hundreds of other U.S. zone cities and towns last week, the 33,000 citizens of Schwäbisch-Gmünd were electing a Bürgermeister. Up for re-election was Franz Czisch, a 40-year-old grocer and Christian Democrat whom the Nazis had once expelled ...

#54959 After Us, The Insects?
by TIME staff in TIME, 3 May 1948
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL (263 pp.)—> Arnold J. Toynbee—Oxford ($3.50). "The Kingdom of England is only 1,000 years old." "These last 6,000 years—brief though they are . . ." "After all, the reign of man on the Earth . . . is so far only about 100,00 ...

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