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...year-old Russian-born Vladimir Jabotinsky. Kinetic, rambunctious, romantic, he is called the Hitler, the Mussolini of young Zionists. Round-faced, bespectacled, he is a poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army, fought in Palestine during the World War, was imprisoned in the fortress of Acco for leading a Jewish defense corps against Arab attackers in Jerusalem in 1920. Viewed now as a firebrand, he is forbidden to return to Palestine...
Meanwhile in Manila, Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of the Philippine independence bill in Congress, last week continued to stir the brown-skinned natives to feverish excitement. Old Army men were shocked, politicos delighted, when he proposed that the U. S. turn over its fortress and defense works at Corregidor to the Filipinos. Voicing the sentiment of U. S. residents, the Manila Herald flayed the Senator for hobnobbing exclusively with the natives, for discourteously ignoring U. S. officials. So alarmed was one large commercial house over the prospect of independence that it applied to Lloyd...
...perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting of an enormous number of large burial mounds, was partly explored, and some pottery and bronzes recovered. Finally, at Chrastany a settlement was found of prehistoric people, some of whom lived there as much as 5,000 years ago, long before the fortress of Homolka itself was occupied...
...doubt looked down from their strongholds upon fields of grain and pastures for their cattle, sheep, and swine. They knew how to weave, and probably made their clothing from the wool of their flocks. It is easy to surmise that traders occasionally crossed the plain to the fortress, carrying commodities such as flint and salt, and sometimes rarer things--amber from the distant Baltic, seashells from the Mediterranean, and perhaps, later on, little trinkets of Hungarian copper...
...dead still remain a mystery. Almost the only burials so far discovered consist of a row of skeletons found on the top of the hill. These, however, proved to be the remains of invading Slavs, who had been interred there nearly 3000 years after the abandonment of the fortress. A search for the original cemetery will be one of the special objects of the work to be carried out there...