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Hiroshima observed the third anniversary of its atomic bomb last week. In token of peace, doves fluttered, bells tolled and a poet was reciting an ode,when a squadron of R.A.F. Mustang fighters thundered overhead, drowning out his voice...
...Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take off by dropping 1,000 feet over a precipice...
...Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla war where there are no front lines and no decisive battles." Later, Azzam suggested setting up a small token Jewish state, like Vatican City, to serve as a symbol of unity for Jews. "Anything that is good for 500 million Catholics,"* said Azzam, "would be good enough for 12 million Jews...
When the sheikh put his share in the lands up for auction, Gulf Oil Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...
...road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question in the minds of Arabs and Jews and even in the chancelleries of considerably greater states was: How far would Abdullah's Legion...