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...Arab attack touched off retaliation and counterretaliation. On the Syrian border, the Haganah dynamited a bridge. Arabs renewed their attacks on Jewish traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale...
...Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found stencils which matched the addresses on the TNT cases: "Haboreg, Ltd., Tel Aviv...
...Jewish side, part of the underground army Haganah came out into the open to protect Jews from Arab attacks. (This week, near Tel Aviv, Arabs in ambush killed the Haganah district commander, Joshua Globerman.) Jews set up twelve recruiting centers in Palestine. Increased immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month...
...Palestine, Red reflexes jerked obediently and opportunely in response to Russia's U.N. vote in favor of partition. In Jewish Tel Aviv the minuscule Communist Party of Palestine, long scornful of any kind of purely Jewish nationalism, changed its name to Communist Party of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel...
Mobilization. But would there ever really be a state for the Jews to name? Could U.N. make its decision stick? While city crowds celebrated, Arabs ambushed two buses in an orange grove southeast of Tel Aviv, sprayed them with gunfire. Five Jews died, 14 were wounded. Arab prisoners attacked Jews in Acre prison. In Damascus, Syria, Moslem youths stoned the U.S. Legation, tore down the U.S. flag, and then looted the Russian-Syrian Cultural Center...