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...went down on Jerusalem after the second day of August, and Tisha b'Ab, the Ninth of Ab (Great Fast Day), began,* Jews pious and Jews pugnacious walked warily toward the Wailing Wall. The Wall is a remnant of The Temple. Jews have wept, have recited the Lamentations of Jeremiah there for most of 1,800 years...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...Result: Tisha b'Ab passed peacefully if uncomfortably. A reader intoned Jeremiah's lamentations by the light of a tiny flickering oil lamp. Jews squatted on the bare stones, straining to hear, but did not tarry long for the crowd was great and many were waiting to worship. The British constabulary called it the quietest as well as one of the biggest Tisha b'Abs on record...
Quickly word of the raid spread among Jews. The great gloom that had preceded Tisha B'Ab continued at this latest desecration. Leaders were indignant, pointed out that Great Britain had failed to maintain its protectorate...
...place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home in Palestine...