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#23621 Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to George C. Marshall on 17 May 1948
by Eleanor Roosevelt, 17 May 1948
Dear Mr. Secretary: Having written you before what I had heard on the subject of the recognition of Palestine, I feel I should write you again. The way in which the recognition of Palestine came about has created complete consternation in the U ...

#23622 Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman on 17 May 1948
by Eleanor Roosevelt, 17 May 1948
Dear Mr. President: I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I just sent to the Secretary of State. You will begin to find me such a nuisance you will wish I would go home and stay there! However this question of having the foreign policy integr ...

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#94157 El Dangoor
by The Times staff in The Times/Sunday Times, 17 May 1948
Cairo, May 16 A communique by the Ministry of National Defence gave news of the progress of the Egyptian Army. It said: "Egyptian forces crossed the eastern frontier at dawn on May 15. Our artillery went into action against the heavily fortified s ...

#97855 Egyptian vanguard in Gaza
by The Times staff in The Times/Sunday Times, 17 may 1948

#97856 Consternation at lake Success - Security Council meets - Implications of U.S. recognition
by The Times staff in The Times/Sunday Times, 17 May 1948
Sir Alexander Cadogan informed the council that the chairman of the commission wnet to Amman on May 13 in search of the Arab Higher Committee. Sir Alexander naturally did not say so, but it could have been inferred from his remarks that, for all Pres ...

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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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A disclaimer applies to this page. This page is not part of the official UCC website. This page is part of a research database of opinions on Palestine and related topics which is maintained by members of the UCC Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which comprises a group of students and staff in the university. The emphasis in this research project is on provenance -- we aim to provide as much information as possible on the background of the people whose opinions are in the database, so that readers can make up their own minds on the credibility that they wish to attach to these opinions.

Items should:
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	have an ISBN (that is, be a book)
	have a URL which contains all the strings
	be uttered by an author/speaker whose name contains all the words			free match whole words exact name
	be published by a journal/producer whose name contains all the words			free match whole words exact name
	discuss a topic whose name contains all the words			free match whole words exact name
		including not including items which discuss sub-topics
	involve a person/organization whose name contains all the words			free match whole words exact name
	mention a place whose name contains all the words			free match whole words exact name
	mention an event	whose name contains all the words		free match whole words exact name
		which is dated anytime between and
Order	order items by date order items by journal or producer, then by date order items by database ID give items in reverse order
Show	all items found only first items in specified ordering ignore book covers