Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple concept, one man wrote an obituary last week. The man who carved the epitaph was a Leftist, who translated his hopes into the terms of international socialism. His right to bury the hope was as good as any Leftist's: Arthur Koestler, of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Haifa, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich, Seville, and now of London, is a veteran of many of Europe's military and ideological battlefields, concentration camps, hospitals, prisons, a journalist of repute, the author of one of the most brilliant and powerful novels of the present day (Darkness at Noon; TIME...
...from the Vichyfrench. The British Ninth Army under General Alexander now holds the Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...
...German bombs last week struck in Haifa and there was a clash of great armies in the land of Egypt...
...first account of what Europe's new barbarians had done to the cloistered life of Mount Athos. For some 90 days & nights the priests had navigated nearly 1,000 miles of island-cluttered seas, and at last beached their 15-ft. open boat on the sands near Haifa in Palestine. There they told how ruck-sacked Nazi youths in peacetime had accepted the monasteries' humble hospitality and returned as soldiers to pillage and defile. Great iron bells that for centuries sounded matins and vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine. Priceless...
...hunger in Athens and Peiraeus between last Oct. 1 and Jan. 26. But last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent to Greece...