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...café overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...
Haganah had arranged the café meeting to urge a curb on Jewish violence while there was still hope of winning concessions from the British. Its representative brought a plea from moderate Zionist leaders to "isolate [terrorists], deny them all encouragement, support and assistance." The Irgun and Stern representatives turned down that appeal, and snarled "Jewish quislings" at Haganah...
Over every coffee table-from the politicos' favorite Tupi-Namba café on Montevideo's palm-graced Plaza Independencia to the café in the Hotel Oriental in cattle-raising Treinta y Tres-the talk was of elections. On Nov. 24, Uruguayans would vote for everything from dog-catcher to President...
...rest of his solid, well-balanced speech, Austin ignored Molotov's charges, expressed quiet optimism about U.N.'s achievements. The commissars from the Armenian mountains and the lawyers from the jungle's fringe, the princes of the Arabian desert and the polemicists from the Balkan cafés looked at the immaculate, stocky figure with varying degrees of understanding. Warren Robinson Austin, ex-Senator from Vermont, the President's Special Representative to the General Assembly, was the U.S.'s new Ambassador to the World...
...Brunnell, Fla., Dominican President Rafael Trujillo's adopted nephew, Jose Adrian Trujillo Seijas, was shot dead outside a café by a sheriff's deputy. The sheriff said the cafe people had mistaken Trujillo and a friend for Negroes, and refused to serve them; a disturbance followed, and the deputy fired in selfdefense...