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...Think About Worldwide Christianity." There are also some worthwhile modern hymns, including 29 of Friedell's and Bristol's own compositions. Old-fashioned hymnologists, however, would be surprised at some omissions, e.g., Rock of Ages (composed by Bristol's great-great-great-uncle, Thomas Hastings), Jerusalem the Golden...
...night, most of the people were just going to bed in the Jordanian village of Kibya, 20 miles northwest' of Jerusalem, and a mile and a half beyond the Israeli frontier. A light still burned in the village coffeehouse, where a few late gossipers were preparing to depart; on this quiet night, as usual, everyone put his trust in the U.N. "truce" and 30 skimpily armed Jordanian national guardsmen. Suddenly, Israeli artillery, previously zeroed onto target, opened up, and a 600-man battalion of uniformed Israeli regulars swept across the border to encircle the village. For the next...
Arab crowds in Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem cried for arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such...
...Office, contrary to its usual custom, did not attempt to deny the attack; not until four days later did a spokesman claim with straight face that the soldiers involved were not regulars but Allied veterans of World War II, now farming on the frontier, who had "lost patience." In Jerusalem the government announced that it welcomed U.N. intervention...
...behind its confident tone, the republic was a bit scared; Jerusalem wore a crisis atmosphere. Premier David Ben-Gurion rushed back from vacation to preside over an emergency Cabinet meeting...