Word: sharett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel erupted in anger. The Israeli Cabinet met in emergency session. Ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion came out of retirement in the Negeb and conferred with his successor, Moshe Sharett, and the Israeli army chiefs. At dawn the next day, U.N. observers and Israelis led three police-trained dogs to the scene, let them sniff deeply of a black knitted Arab cap found behind the war memorial, and gave them their heads. By nightfall the baying hounds had reached a point six miles from the Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said...
Fortunately, there were a few cool-headed men on both sides. One was Pre mier Sharett, who, when he was Foreign Minister, attacked Ben-Gurion for condoning the Kibya massacre (TIME, Oct. 26). Another was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. Glubb offered two Bedouin trackers to assist the blood hounds, and Sharett accepted them. The joint posse worked together for two days until the murderers' spoor petered out in sun-baked rock two miles from Jordan...
...week's end, however, Sharett announced that Israel would put the case before the U.N. Promptly condemned before the world for the pitiless massacre at Kibya, the Jews believed they could prove their Arab enemies from across the Jordan border equally guilty of the equally pitiless massacre at Scorpion's Pass...
...Sharett, a cautious legalist by temperament, will probably pay more heed to the U.N. and to Western wishes than his rambunctious predecessor. For Sharett believes in the give & take of negotiation, while B-G believed more in the power of a fait accompli. The two clashed violently over Israel's defiance of the U.N. on the Jordan dam project, and over the Kibya massacre...
Said one Israeli observer: "With Sharett there won't be any more fireworks. But there will certainly be lectures...