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#42518 Death & the Captain
by TIME staff in TIME, 17 May 1948
Roy Farran did not die. He fought with the maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, r ...

#52882 Visitors from Palestine
by TIME staff in TIME, 17 May 1948
The first-night curtain went up half an hour late. Otherwise all was in perfect Broadway order: there was nothing to suggest that half the cast had barely set foot in the country, that none had slept in a bed for five nights.As far back as Februar ...

#54753 Waiting
by TIME staff in TIME, 17 May 1948
Last week Palestine's Jews awaited the end of the British mandate in cocky confidence, Palestine's Arabs in complete demoralization, the British with determination to make a dignified exit. In Tel Aviv, the Jews prepared to set up a provisional g ...

#54773 Truce of God?
by TIME staff in TIME, 17 May 1948
To protect the things of God from the violence of men, the Christian church once used to declare a "Truce of God." Churchmen in the U.S. and Europe have long been doing their best to bring about a modern Truce of God to protect the holy places of ...

#54816 What Is Truth?
by TIME staff in TIME, 17 May 1948
In Jerusalem, where Pontius Pilate once posed the question, newsmen again asked: "What is truth?" Last week TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs found, amid the confused and bitter fighting, that it was almost impossible for newsmen to answer.This place ...

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