#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 ...