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...week's end the U.N.'s third truce in Palestine was being vigorously violated by both sides. The Jews stood accused by the U.N. Truce Commission of reopening hostilities in the Negeb and at Gaza. The Egyptians were fighting desperately to escape from their pockets. On the northern front, in Galilee, which had seen no major fighting since July 18, the Lebanese and Syrians opened a belated offensive...
...rainy season is approaching; floods from the hills of Hebron will soon make the airlift impossible. Ben-Gurion met last week with his chiefs and decided to act. Having ordered picked Israeli troops to the Negeb front, the government (as required by the Bernadotte ruling) informed U.N. truce officials that they would move a convoy over the disputed highway between the stipulated hours. When the convoy moved down the highway, the Egyptians (as the Israelis had foreseen) opened fire. The second U.N. truce came to a blazing...
...next few years, Conant hopes, U.S. universities will devote themselves particularly to "the advancement of knowledge." But he warns: "One condition is essential: freedom of discussion, unmolested inquiry ... On this point there can be no compromise even in days of an armed truce . . ." As for Communism, no university worth its name will duck the subject: "The first requirement for maintaining a healthy attitude ... is to get the discussion of modern Marxism out into the open...
Speed is essential. The United Nations must send troops into Palestine to keep the peace. But its responsibility does not stop there. Taking advantage of the arms embargo on Israel, the Arabs would welcomes a chance for unmolested rearmament. The longer such a truce lasted without settlement, the closer would be the danger of total war in the Near East. Once the Security Council has forcibly established order, it must stop stalling and come quickly to a satisfactory permanent solution...
...first full length treatment of educational problems since he became President of the University, President Conant envisions an armed truce until the middle 1950's and a divided world for a long time to come...