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...chief point of interest in the village of Beit Safafa, in the bare hills of Jerusalem, is the 2-ft.-high coil of barbed wire snaking down the middle of its main street. On opposite sides of the barricade, rifle-slung Arab Legionnaires of Jordan and rifle-slung border guards of Israel enforce the division day and night in the name of their jealous sovereignties. One day last week, all Beit Safafa was excited by the wedding of two of its children-Fatma Bint, 20, and Moussa Ayasha, 23, a gardener at the Belgian consulate in Jerusalem...
...Arabs insist that the Israeli army is staging planned forays into Arab territory to terrorize and keep the population off balance. One night early last month a party of Israelis crossed into the Arab village of Beit Jala near Bethlehem and blew up three houses, killing three men, two women and two children. The Arabs said they were Jewish soldiers; Israel conceded that the raiders were Jews but said they were marauders. In the past few nights, similar groups killed five Arabs in & about Jerusalem, through which the border runs...
Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett...
Whereas, [Governor Long's] statement is not only untrue but carries the vice of a lie and the venom of a liar. . . . Therefore, beit resolved, by the Senate of Texas, the House concurring, that the . . . statement of Huey P. Long, Governor of the State of Louisiana, is a lie made out of the whole cloth, and its author is a consumate [sic] liar...
...lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a Rhodes House at Oxford, to form an annex to the Bodleian Library and a centre for students of politics in the English-speaking world and for African students. Last week at the annual Rhodes dinner Trustee Sir Otto Beit announced still another Rhodes innovation-a memorial lectureship of ?500 per annum to bring to Oxford for a term each year and for not less than two lectures a foreign man or woman "of pre-eminent distinction" in public life or business, in science, scholarship or letters-preferably from...