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...successive Saturdays of dual races with MIT open a four-week season. The Engineers should not press the Crimson too hard, since practice hours at the Institute cannot start until labs are out at 5 p.m. The outings against MIT, however, are the Crimson's only races on the Charles this year, and they will certainly be the easiest...
...With only eleven days left till the uneasy four-week Arab-Jewish truce expires, Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte sent to both sides his recommendations for peace talks to achieve a permanent settlement in Palestine. The recommendations, carried by plane to Cairo and Tel Aviv, were still wrapped in official secrecy...
Perhaps the happiest Rhodian of all was Michael Stamatoglu, manager of the Hotel des Roses. For the remaining half of the four-week truce period, business would be brisk. Floor Waiter Georgiu was intrigued by Bernadotte's request that half of the rooms reserved should be in one wing of the hotel, half in the other, as far apart as possible. "There are separate staircases too," said Georgiu with a knowing wink, "which may be convenient...
...Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was grave but pleased. In Cairo he announced to assembled newsmen that both Jews and Arabs had accepted his plan for a four-week truce in Palestine. At one point Bernadotte humbly said: "If we hadn't got help from God Almighty . . ." He looked up and saw some cynical smiles among his listeners. Bernadotte screwed his monocle more firmly into his right eye, continued: "Without His help, we wouldn't be sitting here...
Bernadotte would need all his diplomatic skill. Israel and the Arab governments said that they had "unconditionally" accepted the Security Council's call for a four-week truce. But there were conditions to the unconditional: the Israelis had attached "assumptions," the Arabs "explanations." One of the chief obstacles to agreement was the question of immigration. Jews insisted that the Security Council resolution allowed unlimited immigration, even of men of military age. The Arabs claimed that Jewish immigrants were potential soldiers and should be barred during the truce period. By week's end Bernadotte said that this quarrel...