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...lands between front lines. Each side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle of supplies flowing into Jerusalem. A Jewish commander called it "our Burma Road...
Last week, as commander of Israeli forces trying to open the road to Jerusalem, Marcus was in the hills west of the town. There, a few minutes before the U.N. truce went into effect, an Arab bullet killed him. His body was brought back to Tel Aviv by jeep, to be sent to West Point for burial. Said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "His name will live forever in the annals of the Jewish people...
...been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant to throw their full strength into the fight. "Being by nature an optimist," said Bernadotte, "I haven't become a pessimist...
...Outside Tel Aviv harbor last week, in the war's first naval engagement, an Israeli corvette and planes gave battle to an Egyptian corvette and some small transports. The Egyptian force withdrew...
Orde Wingate never got back. He died in a plane crash on a Burmese mountainside, four weeks before his son was born. But last week Lorna was back. "Israel is at war," she told Jewish friends in Tel Aviv, as she left for a visit to the U.S. "If I had gold and money I would contribute them for the war which my husband foresaw. Not having them, I decided to [bring] you my son ... to be educated in Israel and to be a loyal son of both Israel and Britain...