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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce...
That was in the morning. In the afternoon, Friend Brinton was consulted by a Chinese student about his studies in Neo-Platonism. Two relief workers consulted him about D.P. camps in Austria to which they had been assigned. At 4:30, a term paper on U.S. cooperatives was read and pondered. In the evening there was a lecture on the philosophy of Quakerism. It was a typical day in the life of Director of Studies Brinton and of Pendle Hill...
...days after F.D.R.'s third-term victory-Ickes also sent a resignation to F.D.R. "in the belief that you ought to be entirely free to reshuffle your official family...
...Saying one's prayers," she holds, is a term to be avoided; prayers too easily lapse into a quick bedtime formality like brushing the teeth. Parents should rather encourage spontaneous prayer. She cites one she once heard: "Oh thank you, God, for our muddy garden and my Sister Baby and the lovely spiders. I want to be a Good Big Girl. Amen...
Plane Prex. La Motte T. Cohu, who resigned as T.W.A. president last month, was named to succeed ailing Harry Woodhead as president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Cohu was chairman and general manager of Northrop Aircraft, Inc. for eight years before his term with money-losing T.W.A. Bogged down by production tangles, Convair lost $5,130,338 in the five months ending April...