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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has always been and always will be one capital only-Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Till the End of Time? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...highhanded and unrealistic, but now warned Israel against an "inflammatory move." The shift of Israel's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been long and carefully prepared; several government departments had quietly moved to the Holy City months ago. Last week, in his big black Cadillac, the Premier himself motored resolutely to Jerusalem. During his 90-minute drive through settlements along the way, hundreds of Israelis cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Till the End of Time? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Determined to avoid scandal, Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Died. Traicho Kostov, 52, ousted Communist Vice Premier of Bulgaria; in execution by hanging; after a Communist purge in Sofia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Premier de Gasperi held one of his rare press conferences, gave out reassuring figures showing Italy's rising food production. He hopefully pointed to ECA projects in Italy which are trying to educate the peasants to use their land to better purposes. At La Sila, not far from Melissa, the Italian government, with ECA help, is spending 15 billion lire ($24 million) on a project to improve the land, plans to settle 20,000 peasant families there. They will be instructed in crop rotation and other modern agricultural methods, get new tools and fertilizers. The U.S. has earmarked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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