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Particularly distressing was the Arab split. Both parties were agreed that Palestine should be independent. But the faction under the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem has long tried to achieve that end by terrorism, while the Defense Arabs, under two leaders, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and his uncle Ragheb, wanted negotiation. The Mufti Arabs refused to negotiate with the Defense Arabs, whom they would shoot on sight in Palestine. By diligent shuttling Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald finally got them together...
Jealousy among the various Arab delegates-from Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Yemen-broke out next. It was learned that Palestinian Defense Leader Ragheb Bey Nashashibi had "caught cold"-not from dank British weather but from heat put on him by representatives of surrounding States...
...Protector" Daladier was "honored" to be received in white-walled Bardo Palace by plump, thin-bearded, 76-year-old Sidi Ahmed II, Bey of Tunis, figurehead ruler of the protectorate. Slender Erik Labonne, French Resident General, the real ruler of Tunisia, stayed in the background. As M. Daladier crossed the imaginary boundary line of the Bey's palace grounds he forgot to observe a 500-year-old custom which requires all visitors, high or low to bow. An attaché quickly reminded the Premier, who halted, backed up, bowed...
...throne room the Bey, flanked by his three sons, and M. Daladier, followed by his staff, shook hands ceremoniously. His Highness listened to the Premier promise France's "continued protection" of the Bey's domains. The Bey's Minister of the Pen read in Arabic this cordial reply: "All Tunisia will, if need be, group itself in support of France." Then His Highness decorated the Premier with the coveted order of Aned el Aman, usually given only to royalty...
Tony Galento, clownish saloon-keeping heavyweight of Orange, N. J., was training for his Philadelphia fight with Negro John Henry Lewis five days before the bout. After flattening three sparring partners at Madame Bey's Summit, N. J., training camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104° temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared...