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#150619 Despair is Voiced by Arab Refugees: Evacuees from Palestine say Jews Crash Through Weak Resistance by Volunteers
by AP in The New York Times, 3 may 1948
A stream of Arab refugees is moving eastward across the Jordan river. Many of the refugees passing Jericho en route to Trans-Jordan, a few miles away, are from Jerusalem and Jaffa. They say they fear that Jewish offensives are crashing through weaken ...
#150620 Palestine Strife Creates DP Issue
by AP in The New York Times, 3 May 1948
200,000 Arabs are now listed as homeless
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It is believed that possibly 50,000 Arabs left Jaffa, thousands of them by sea. Other thousands have fled inland, large numbers of them to become cave dwellers in the historic caves of Beit Jibrin, n ...
#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 ...