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...Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
...mainly Mohammedan, Lebanon mainly Christian, both have strong, quarrelsome minority groups; 2) Moslem nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make periodic pillages in the fertile valleys of Lebanon...
...list had been temporarily excommunicated from the Serbian Orthodox Church for supporting a Concordat with the Vatican; all were due to appear for trial before an ecclesiastical court (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante...
...Bluejackets, burning to avenge the death of their comrade, landed under cover of darkness to reinforce the permanent naval garrison in Shanghai. More than 60,000 Chinese from the teeming native quarter, expecting a repetition of the Japanese retaliation bombing of the city in 1932 (TIME, Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.), screamed and fought to enter the already crowded foreign areas...
...option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East, asked New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to cancel the request for extradition...