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Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
...British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of Representatives; Her Majesty's Governor General, Lord Hailes, will now name the 19-member Senate. Princess Margaret will inaugurate the legislature April 22 in the new capital, Trinidad's Port of Spain-and The West Indies will be in business...
...haven for Canary Islands fishermen, but the Spanish did not get around to taking it over until 1934. King Mohammed V tacitly agreed to leave Ifni to the Spaniards at the time of the 1956 declaration of independence. But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back. The demand was part of Morocco's reassertion of its ancient claims on the Sahara region stretching from the Atlantic coast down to French Mauritania (part of French West Africa). "Every grain of the Sahara belongs to Morocco," cried bearded Si Allal el Fassi, chief...
Taking two more strides towards practicing nationhood last week, the newly formed British West Indies federation got its first Governor General and chose a site for its capital...
...mocked and mauled socialists, his fellow intellectuals, the middle class ("dry-rotted yes-people who are clay in the hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration-"a great promiscuous grave into which tumble, and then disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class or nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality of our time," combining "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave...