Word: seele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over whom they feel comfortably superior along "the white man's burden" lines, and whose colorful tribal customs and indifferent air appeal to their more romantic nature. Koestler's British Commissioner admits to the "impartial observer," an American correspondent, that he sees the incongruity in the Arab desire to seel their land to Jews at fabulous prices, on the one hand, and Arab insistence upon owning and ruling Palestine, on the other. But the British issue the 1939 White Paper curtailing Jewish immigration and halting Jewish land purchases, and Joseph, still undecided, begins to see the futility of bargaining...