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...often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated...
Representatives of the United Nations, including Israel and Sweden, gathered on a barren hill between Jerusalem and the sea, to plant the first tree of what is to be a pine forest dedicated to the memory of Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator who was assassinated...
...Beit Jala near Bethlehem and blew up three houses, killing three men, two women and two children. The Arabs said they were Jewish soldiers; Israel conceded that the raiders were Jews but said they were marauders. In the past few nights, similar groups killed five Arabs in & about Jerusalem, through which the border runs...
...Services Rendered. It may be a sad comeuppance for the proud and potent Hospitallers, whose origins go back to the Crusades. In the 12th century, they were well established in Jerusalem as an order of brothers caring for poor and sick pilgrims, and with a contingent of their own armed knights to protect them. For their services, the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, as they were then called, won historical privileges from the Holy See, e.g., independence of all spiritual and temporal authority save that of the Pope, exemption from tithes, and the right to their own chapels, clergy...
...After Jerusalem fell to Saladin, the Hospitallers looked for a new outlet for their energies. They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their...