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Saad did better than well. Disguised as a peddler, cunningly he insinuated himself into the house of Kasir's chief citizen. But when he met the eyes of Evanthia, daughter of the house, he had need of all his Arab cunning. When the household was asleep and Saad's duty was to escape to the city walls, not Evanthia but Evanthia's mother lured him to her room. Honor and duty both satisfied. Saad played an Arab hero's part in the ensuing pillage. Somehow Evanthia escaped him, but back in the pleasant pasture-lands her image gave...
...scion of a rich Jewish family, prosperous and happy. His life was ruined when his young wife and child were killed in Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents. His attempt to murder Herod in revenge failed; by a series of lucky accidents he escaped into the desert to friendly Arabs. But he had become a man of fixed idea, and only bided his time to launch a rebellion against Herod and the eRomans who kept him in power. Then he met Rongus, a young Jew who had been sold into slavery by a mercenary uncle. Too high-spirited...
Concluded Judge Loefgren: "We must not be astonished if the [British Labor] Government . . . tries to find a solution or an interpretation to make both ends meet. . . . Neither party [Jewish or Arab] is satisfied . . . the government has struck the right note in trying to mete out justice...
...Arab sales of land in Palestine to Jews to be under strict Government supervision, with the suggestion that Great Britain will discourage such sales...
Quite as promptly came pat answers to the charges from British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson: 1) Although fully informed of conditions in Palestine through annual reports, the League's Mandates Commission itself did not foresee the Wailing Wall riots. 2) The Arab outbreak was not incited by resentment against the British for failure to fulfill their aspirations, for there was not one attack upon any representative of British authority. 3) When the outbreak came the British Were attempting to arbitrate the Wailing Wall question, a policy still regarded by Britain as the only possible method of settling...