Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Britain, the geographic guts would be knocked out of the Empire. Berlin, with its talk of jihad, did its best to kindle the Arab sheiks to flame. Newspapers and radio announced loudly that Syrian Arabs were individually telegraphing support and encouragement to Iraq, that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was urging Palestine Arabs to open battle, that Ibn Saud, tough, single-minded leader of Saudi Arabia, was mobilizing his desert legions...
...words failed to get by the Greek censor-for reasons still unknown. Then Peter boarded another plane and set out for Palestine. On the way the plane was attacked by an Axis fighter, and one of Peter's Ministers was killed. But the hurt plane reached Jerusalem, a new cradle for Free Yugoslavia...
...three latest fugitive bigwigs to be chased out of their country by the rolling swastika fled first last week to hard-pressed Athens, then to Jerusalem. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. About all they took with them was the grim satisfaction that Adolf Hitler will have a tough time making that...
...beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through...
Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous...