Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Palestine's Jews awaited the end of the British mandate in cocky confidence, Palestine's Arabs in complete demoralization, the British with determination to make a dignified exit. In Tel Aviv, the Jews prepared to set up a provisional government for a Jewish state...
...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
Meanwhile, at Lake Success, the U.N. General Assembly ended its second week of discussion of what to do. There were prospects of peace in at least one small part of Palestine: Jewish Prime Minister-to-be David Ben-Gurion, who had been visiting Jewish militiamen during Passover, cabled his representatives at U.N. to accept a truce for Jerusalem's Old City. But most of the U.N. debate was still concerned with procedural issues. Between meetings, the delegates of the 58 nations sent their assistants to the newsstand in the U.N. cafeteria to buy the latest editions of the newspapers...
Near the end of the novel a Jewish terrorist pointlessly murders the most powerful and fervent of the older Zionists-a man who had sworn that Jews would never kill Britons. Arabesque, like the Middle East adventure stories that Eric Ambler spins, is no great shakes as a work of art, but it manages, along with romance, a dispassionate little picture of the way the tide was running toward the recent desperate events in Palestine...
Professor John Somerville of Hunter College, author of "Soviet Philosophy" and former visiting lecturer at the College, will be guest speaker at the twentieth anniversary celebration of Birooidjan--the Jewish autonomous region of the U.S.S.R.--Sunday evening at New England Mutual Hall...