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While U.N. talked, the Jews were carving Palestine with a sword. In a whirlwind week they seized Haifa, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...
...into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised as Arabs were caught trying to get through Kawukji's lines. Grinning with a calm ferocity that showed his gold molars, Kawukji said: "I have some Jewish prisoners, but intend to kill them...
...plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
...Palestine, as at Flushing Meadow, there was joy among Jews. In the early morning hours, when news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...passengers' lot has also been improved. When Cullman first inspected the field, he concluded that "they treat them worse than at Haifa." Waiting rooms were cleaned up, customs procedures speeded. But the passengers were still not happy enough for Cullman. At Idlewild they will have a hotel and, he hopes, a sports arena and an auditorium. By 1960 Cullman expects all three ports to be shopping and amusement centers, employing a combined total of 37,000 and earning enough from their concessionaires to pay for their own development...