Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting and dying. For the most part, both Jews and Arabs stayed within the partition boundaries, fixed by U.N., but Israeli* forces captured Acre in the north, fanned out toward the Lebanese border, and attacked Arab Ramie near Tel Aviv in an effort to open the lifeline road to Jerusalem's Jews...
Long Drumfire. The fiercest battle of the week was fought in the no-government's-land of Jerusalem, which U.N. had once marked for international control...
...plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem by a sniper's bullet...
Died. Major Guy Richard Charles Wyndham, 52, wellborn, well-to-do war correspondent for the London Sunday Times; by machine-gun fire; in Jerusalem (again demonstrating that the war correspondent's risk is greater than the average soldier...
...ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt...