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...year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...
Said Premier Sharett laconically: "It looks like a reaction to the Kissalon incident." Said Jordan's impetuous young King Hussein: "Victory will be ours." This week men tautly fingered triggers along the frontiers, and Arab-Israeli relations boiled up toward the worst crisis in the five years since the Palestine war ended...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion came out of retirement in the Negeb and conferred with his successor, Moshe Sharett, and the Israeli army chiefs. At dawn the next day, U.N. observers and Israelis led three police-trained dogs to the scene, let them sniff deeply of a black knitted Arab cap found behind the war memorial, and gave them their heads. By nightfall the baying hounds had reached a point six miles from the Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said a U.S. officer of the Armistice Command. But the trail was proof enough...
Fortunately, there were a few cool-headed men on both sides. One was Pre mier Sharett, who, when he was Foreign Minister, attacked Ben-Gurion for condoning the Kibya massacre (TIME, Oct. 26). Another was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. Glubb offered two Bedouin trackers to assist the blood hounds, and Sharett accepted them. The joint posse worked together for two days until the murderers' spoor petered out in sun-baked rock two miles from Jordan...
...week's end, however, Sharett announced that Israel would put the case before the U.N. Promptly condemned before the world for the pitiless massacre at Kibya, the Jews believed they could prove their Arab enemies from across the Jordan border equally guilty of the equally pitiless massacre at Scorpion's Pass...