Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...footman flings open the portals of my palace in that New Jerusalem for me; another unrolls a red path of velvet to the enormous motor which floats me through the city traffic-I leaning back like Ed ward VII, or like God, on leather cushions, smoking a big cigar...
Residents of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, strolling onto the terrace for a breath of night air and a final look at the moonlight-flooded city, heard night-jarring sounds. From a brightly lighted second-story window came angry voices. Curious newsmen stood listening to name-calling, the sound of face-slapping, of furniture being upset...
Despite such fraternal strife among Arab and Jewish leaders, the peoples themselves still mingled in Jerusalem, a common holy place, on terms of surprising amity. They felt that, even if the current crisis exploded in civil war, Jew and Arab would continue to live together in Palestine for a long time...
Faced with critical decisions, the Arab League Council prepared to meet in Cairo this week, the Zionist Organization executive council in Jerusalem the following week. Three British divisions were standing...
...each day (except Saturdays) Isaiah's words issued forth from a mobile Palestine "resistance" radio. Last week Jerusalem had no peace. Armored cars raced up its hills, troops armed to the teeth patrolled its narrow streets, days & nights were loud with the rumble of mili tary convoys...