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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this very moment, however, I most earnestly call upon all of you: keep closely together in this time of terror and danger. Unite. I repeat, unite . . . Show that you are matched for this important epoch in which we live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: God Disposes | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, Ye continues to build his church. He has done most of the construction work himself, although he now has the help of an ex-alcoholic Korean carpenter, whom Ye reformed.Two rooms have been added to one end of the little church, one for Ye to live in, another for his study. The steeple was twisted by a high wind and must be somewhat altered in design.There is a cabbage crop planted on the plot of land (donated by the U.S. Army) where the factory will be, and the foundation-laying must await the harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Jews. In 1933-until outraged fellow Arabs forced him to renege-he leased 22½ square miles of Transjordan land to the Jews. Both Abdullah and Jewish leaders, as the two dominant contenders for Palestine, knew that in the long run they would have to agree to live side by side. To mollify his Arab allies, Abdullah would have to breathe anti-Zionist fire. But he was a reluctant dragon. While he talked war, he wanted peace. Publicly, he promised the Jews local self-government in an Arab state. Jews thought that, privately, he might be willing to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reluctant Dragon | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt's King Farouk last week: "I cannot and will not tolerate a Zionist state in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reluctant Dragon | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Lick Skillet Dialogue. Cohn believes that most Southerners only faintly glimpse the inner lives of the Negroes by whom they are surrounded-Negroes who live apart in sections with such names as "Lick Skillet," "Spot Without a Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delta in Detail | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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