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...only surviving leader of the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 - the first great ecumenical meeting - addressed the opening service in the Nieuwe Kerk, which was spruced up for Princess Juliana's investiture as Queen of The Netherlands on Sept. 6. He movingly recalled "the preparatory stages" at Jerusalem, Madras, Stockholm, Lausanne, Oxford, Edinburgh and Utrecht "which have brought us to this hour...
...years (166-160 B.C.) he led pious Jews in rebellion against the Greeks, who had dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to the worship of Olympian Zeus and sacrificed pigs on the altar. Three centuries later the Jewish hero Bar Kochba led a less successful three-year rebellion against the Romans, briefly set himself up as king in Jerusalem...
...sporadic. On the Arab side, Egyptians (in the southern desert) and Syrians and Iraqis (in Galilee) were most active. Abdullah's Arab Legion, the only force likely to cause Israel serious trouble, had done little but engage in an artillery and mortar duel with Jewish forces in Jerusalem. In a night attack the Jews won Lydda Airport, biggest in Palestine. Later they captured, after surprisingly feeble Arab resistance, the towns of Lydda and Ramleh, and threatened Arab positions blocking the lifeline road to Jerusalem. Abdullah's Arab Legion had not yet launched a major attack and feeling persisted...
...Declaring that Jerusalem had been completely demolished...
...Bernadotte was pleased that the truce agreement was being observed. Last week U.S. planes patrolled Palestine coasts, U.N. observers checked Israeli imports for war supplies, manned checkpoints on the road to Jerusalem as big food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber...