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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jerusalem sees the new state as the core of an ever-widening personal empire. To the North, the Christian Lebanese prefer a Jewish to a Moslem neighbor, while Ibn Saud of Arabia has already acknowledged that his oil concessions will be continued, whatever the UN decides for the Holy Land. Although the Arabstates could unite against partition, long term objective clashes would dilute their strength...
Militarily, the Arab states alone are a poor second to the Jewish Haganah of 75,000 well-equipped men, many of whom saw war action in Allied armies. General D'Arey, a recent British military commander in the Holy Land, stated that Haganah could defend itself against all external Arab forces for at least one year. Although Arab military manpower approaches 100,000, the quality is poor and it is considered significant that the one force capable of serious military action is the British-trained-and-officered Trans-Jordan Arab Legion...
...problem of Palestine forms a focus for United Nations attention, the College Zionist Society, expecting a membership of 400, is putting into motion a series of lectures and forums centered around the controversial political economic, and social questions of the home land of Jews and Arabs...
Communist Party delegates had met in Warsaw in September. There they had, in effect, re-established the Communist International. There they issued a "manifesto" which was a clear and brassy call to every Communist in every land...
...limit for what some would pay for a tractor or slightly used auto on the black market. But most of the farmers' spending was going into better living-running water, bathrooms, electricity and appliances, kitchen labor-savers. Nothing was too good; some farmers were buying airplanes and putting landing strips in their fields. Kansans were reaching for more land, as they always had in prosperous times. But now they were paying mostly cash; Kansans remember all too well the disasters of mortgage foreclosures in the early '30s and after the duststorm years. Farm solvency...