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Northern New England opinion had polarized around Lawrence Jaffa 3Dv., on one hand and Earl Eames of M.I.T. on the other. Jaffa was the regional chairman last year and at the time of that election had been support of a coalition in the N.S.A. including Students for Democratic Action and leading Catholic schools...
Eames' opposition started a year ago when the person elected regional vice-chairman at the national convention was not confirmed at the regional assembly, largely because of the opposition of Jaffa and Houghteling...
Lawrence M. Jaffa 2Dv., Northern New England Regional Chairman, presided over the meeting and William J. Richard '49 acted in his post of regional chairman of the International Commission for Northern New England. The program presented by the Harvard delegation was based on the report of the Student Council's International Activities Committee and the annual President's report...
...Palestine powder train burned shorter & shorter. Encouraged by their easy success at Haifa (TIME, May 3), the Jews attacked Arab Jaffa and began to attack Arab quarters in Jerusalem. But the British, who wanted to win back Arab friends in the last days of the mandate, decided that there must be no more Haifas. They beat the Jews back from Jaffa, ordered a cease-fire in Jerusalem suburbs, and rushed reinforcements from Cyprus, Malta and Suez to hold the Jews...
...moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...