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Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved...
Other results of the eight days' fighting were the decisive defeat of the Egyptian army (now reduced to half a dozen pockets), the encirclement of Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast, and the flight of the Mufti's Arab Palestine government from Gaza to a Cairo suburb, where it declared itself ready to cede "its" territory to Transjordan's King Abdullah. By routing the Egyptians and their stooge, the Mufti, the Israelis had greatly strengthened the hand of Abdullah, the one Arab leader with whom they thought they might successfully talk peace. By the same...
Land fell on Gaza (seat of the Mufti's new Arab government in Palestine). Arab forces opened up on Jewish settlements in the Negeb with 100-pound guns. Both sides rejected a U.N. cease fire order...
...When We Have Won ..." Last week there were no signs of either. Jewish successes had consolidated the Arabs as never before. In anger and wounded pride Arabs cried out against their leaders. The prestige of Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, sagged lower & lower. The Arab League was under pressure to act quickly. Said the Cairo daily Al Balagh: "We can no longer suffer one catastrophe after another. Zionism in Palestine means that no Arabs will be left...
...most Arabs thought could save Palestine for them. King Abdullah said that he would lead his Arab Legion (10,000 men) and Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken all or part of Palestine, Abdullah would give it up. In their extremity, they were willing to take...