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Royal Greeting. Into the Old City of Jerusalem one day last week came King Abdullah of Trans Jordan, clad in a new uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
Long Drumfire. The fiercest battle of the week was fought in the no-government's-land of Jerusalem, which U.N. had once marked for international control...
...plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem by a sniper's bullet...
Died. Major Guy Richard Charles Wyndham, 52, wellborn, well-to-do war correspondent for the London Sunday Times; by machine-gun fire; in Jerusalem (again demonstrating that the war correspondent's risk is greater than the average soldier...
...Jerusalem last week, the A.P. set a record for roundabout communication. A.P. Correspondent Carter Davidson, on the Haganah side of the battle line, was only a few hundred yards across no man's land from A.P. Correspondent Dan De Luce, with the Arab Legion. To communicate with De Luce, Davidson had to send his message via the U.S. consulate to Washington, then to the A.P.'s New York offices, which sent it back to Arab Legion headquarters at Amman, Transjordan, which delivered it to De Luce in Jerusalem. Total straight-line distance: 12,700 miles...