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...night last week, while shots rang in the distance, a little man hurried furtively through the streets of Jerusalem with a parcel under his arm. He stopped at the house where the advance party (two men and two women) of the United Nations Palestine Commission was staying. Glancing quickly about him, he rang the doorbell, handed in his parcel, and dashed off. In the package were a chicken, a leg of lamb, carrots, lettuce, eggplant and two loaves of bread...
...What Are We Here For?" The U.N. General Assembly, meeting at Flushing Meadows last week to wrestle a third time with the Palestine problem, seemed as paralyzed as its bewildered representatives in Jerusalem. Uruguay's Delegate Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat asked irritably of his gloomy fellow delegates: "What are we here for?" By week's end there had been no answer from U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, to whom the assembly looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could...
...Forget Thee . . ." In the battle for the Jerusalem roads (TIME, April 19), the Jews scored a victory. Guarded by 1,000 Haganah soldiers, a convoy of 300 trucks with 1,000 tons of food managed to reach Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. On one truck was printed a Biblical pledge: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning...
Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who watched the battle of the Jerusalem roads last week: "I stood on a high escarpment amid a crowd of Arab soldiers, watching their 105-millimeter Schneider howitzer lob big shells into Jewish convoys trying to round a perilous bend in the road, two miles away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke...
...Very Worried." But the real battle was still the battle for the roads. For the Jews in Jerusalem, it was a matter of survival. Each day food grew scarcer, bread lines longer. Those most immediately threatened by the Arab stranglehold were 1,500 Orthodox Jews living in the Old City, surrounded by blockading Arabs. What food they got was coming through in British convoys...