Word: jerusalems
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...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
When a 16-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
...Europe have long been doing their best to bring about a modern Truce of God to protect the holy places of Palestine from destruction in Arab-Jewish fighting. This week as Arabs, Jews and U.N. officials negotiated their way toward a permanent truce for all Jerusalem, the Vatican sent one of its expert trouble shooters to the Holy Land...
Delegate Testa will do his best to have at least three holy places-Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth-internationalized and placed under U.N. mandate. Contact man with U.N. for the negotiations will be New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. Once the Palestine question is settled, say Vatican officials, a gradual extension of Cardinal Spellman's U.N. middle-maneuvering "is not unlikely...
...serpentine affair into which this innocent adventuress lightly steps takes her to a Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...