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...April 9, 1948, in the first days of the Arab-Israeli war, Jewish terrorists of the Stern Gang and Irgun Z-vai Leumi encircled Deir Yassin, an Arab village a few miles west of Jerusalem, and by loud speaker demanded its surrender. Their leader carried a cautionary wire from the regional commander of the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israeli army: "I learn you plan an attack on Deir Yassin. I have no objection [but] I warn you against blowing up the village...
...Bela Gruner's lawyer last week told him that his ?120 bonus check for five and a half years' service with the British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...
...rare in the U. S.: Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti graduated from West Point; Prince Nondiyavat Svasti from Georgetown last June; Prince Tong Ti Kayou went to San Francisco in 1928 to attend high school and learn baseball; Prince Arjuna Svasti to Yale in 1930; Prince Chukratong Tong-Vai is now studying entomology at Cornell; Prince Debriddhi Devakul is studying agriculture at Boscowen, N. H., supervised as are 22 other Siamese by Murray Sheehan of the Siamese Legation in Washington...
...clock this afternoon. The midshipmen have defeated Lehigh 23 to 12 and overwhelmed Princeton, 25 to 3; a meet with Oklahoma is the sole Navy loss to date. After the Harvard meatmen have met the Navy team, which is given strong odds of winning, they will journey vai Washington to Princeton and will meet the Tiger wrestlers on Monday afternoon...