Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Agency warned that Jerusalem would become a battlefield when the British withdrew. Said a spokesman: ". . . In any battle for Jerusalem we would be most anxious to respect the holy places but, in practice, it will be impossible...
...Bronx Cheer. Next day in Palestine a dozen engagements between Jews and Arabs were fought. At El Kabri on the north coastal plain 250 Arabs ambushed a Jewish convoy, killed over 40. In another engagement a mile and a half from Bethlehem, 3,000 Arabs attacked another convoy, killed a score of Jews in a 30-hour battle. Both attacks occurred in areas which would have gone to the Arabs under the partition plan. The ambushed Jewish convoys had been carrying badly-needed supplies to isolated Zionist communities...
Next day, with the British army as intermediary, the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem negotiated the surrender with representatives of the Arab Higher Committee. A battalion of the Suffolk Regiment of the British army came up to enforce the surrender terms which had been radioed to the beleaguered Jews. When Arabs attacked, British soldiers crouched in a circle around the house, fired shots over the Arabs' heads. When the Jews surrendered, the British searched them; several of the Zionist militia-women had hidden ammunition in their blouses...
Weizmann, who would probably become president if the Zionists proclaim a Jewish state, talked to U.N., to Truman. He got nowhere, commented bitterly: "It took the British 25 years to sell us out; the Americans have done it in 2½ months...
...Austria's best skiers, and a man who likes fast cars and high living. He first crossed his rival's path back in the Nazi heyday. He was a dark and dapper little Austrian with relentless ambition, a Nazi before the Anschluss (Karajan's part-Jewish wife became one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans"). Goebbels backed Furtwängler; Goring backed Karajan. When Karajan became director of the Berlin State Opera, Furtwängler never got over it. And when Furtwängler was the first to be de-Nazified, Karajan in turn was furious...