Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eban declared that a "smash and grab" partition would result in the Holy Land after the withdrawal of British troops if the U.N. did not set up the mechanism for peaceful partition. He added, "It is to be hoped that the U.N. will prefer a peaceful solution to certain chaos...
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...Palestine are already sown. The Hashemite-ruled countries of Trans-Jordan and lraq harbor long-range designs towards Syria as well as Arab Palestine, while the Mufti of 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...
...meeting last December, heads of the five leading Law School extra-curricular activities had indicated that a majority of them would prefer "a more utilitarian" project, such as a dining hall or a new dormitory. However, their opinion was never made public; and few students at the School are aware of the controversy...
Farmers get top priority from three Venezuelan missions now in Europe. Next come technicians* (chemists, mechanics, carpenters, electricians), then professional men. Merchants without special skills are discouraged. Venezuelans prefer Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese to Slavs or Germans. Few Jews are admitted; caraqueños contend that they are almost as hard to assimilate as men & women from the U.S., tend to "pitch-their camps too near the Plaza Bolivar in the capital...