Word: militiamen
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...dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns to help arm the hundred local militiamen...
Crowds along South St. Paul's Concord Street jeered as the helmeted guardsmen seized several pickets who tried to block workers' cars. Then, with bayonets prodding those who did not step lively, the militiamen cleared more than a mile of Concord Street of all bystanders. The guardsmen swarmed around Minnesota's marble-domed Capitol as strikers went to protest to Governor Youngdahl. Said the governor: "You can't win a strike by anarchy . . . Have a little faith that I am working for you . . . Keep your shirts...
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...
When it was all over (except for some tears and a little killing), the victors celebrated. Last Saturday was proclaimed "Police Day" in Prague, to honor the men who had made the victory possible. Spread in massive ranks across the old town square stood thousands of policemen and militiamen, agents of the force which hoped to celebrate Police Day the world over. Before them, amid Prague's grey and ancient statuary, sat Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, surrounded by his new cabinet, a smug, squat figure of triumph...
...moment, Jewish guns and bombs were speaking more loudly than the Arabs'. Last week Haganah militiamen, in steel helmets and khaki uniforms, began systematic retaliation against Arabs. In communal fights, Palestine's death toll swelled...