Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with thousands of pilgrims preparing to travel to Jerusalem during the Holy Year of 1950, Israel and Jordan reached a boundary agreement after lengthy talks. There will still be a frontier in the middle of the city, but, presumably, Christian pilgrims will now be able to cross the dividing line freely and safely...
...Arab side, the Old City still looks much as it appeared to Godfrey de Bouillon, "Defender of the Holy Sepulcher," when he marched in with the First Crusaders almost 900 years ago. The Holy Sepulcher still stands, though in altered form. Everything around it has remained intact, including the Via Dolorosa along which Jesus climbed to Calvary...
...village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled shrine...
Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better off than before the war. Craddock reminded them that in 1938 over 20,000 workers were unemployed in Bradford; now only 600 are out of work, most of these unemployable. His Conservative opponent, a wizened Bradford solicitor named John Windle, concentrated on the theme that Britain was in a mess...
...many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...