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...Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken all or part of Palestine, Abdullah would give it up. In their extremity, they were willing to take that chance...
...individuals. He liked our working class and in the first days of our February revolution spontaneously went with them. His speeches from those days were very clear and very radical and, I must say, surprised many of us. His "I go with the people" and "With this new government I am going to govern with gusto" leave no doubt about their meaning. Then the crisis came. His reason told him that he went perhaps too far according to his previous political views. The revolution necessarily was accompanied by much profiteering and injustice which Masaryk loathed so much. Then came...
...important to have? 1) The right to say or write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a fair and free election to decide who shall govern the country? 5) The right to private ownership of business...
...warning is apparently no longer a deterrent to science's Peeping Toms. The 20th Century analyst, says Charles D. Abbott, is "passionately absorbed in the pursuit of hows and whys," and flatly refuses "to accept anything, even a work of art, without . . . trying to discover the laws that govern its making, the impulses that give it birth." So when Professor Abbott, a true son of his times, took over the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo, he struggled to find some up-to-date way of expressing his passionate interest in poetry...
...After a while you get to know certain things and govern yourself accordingly. You do not, of course, just drop in on President Alemán. But once you are with him, he sits back for a long chat with you as if he had nothing on his mind but to solve your problems. He has an extraordinary amount of that Mexican charm I was speaking about...