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Amid the whine of bullets and whoompf of mortar shells, Jerusalem took brief hope last week from the arrival of the storks. Each year the birds winter in Africa; it is a good omen when they stop in Palestine on their return to Europe in the spring. But this year, instead of staying several days, they left quickly. Arabs and Jews shook their heads...
...hills outside Jerusalem, British troops stopped a battle between Jews and Arabs. There the Jews were trying to dislodge Arab snipers who have almost cut off communications between Jerusalem and the coast. The British military commander, Brigadier Charles Phibbs Jones, made a quiet point: "Prolonged firing between Arabs and Jews within Jerusalem makes life intolerable for its inhabitants...
...only in Jerusalem, but in much of Palestine, legal quibbles at Lake Success seemed very remote; the immediate question was whether or not people would continue to get their daily bread, fuel, water, government services of any kind after the British leave...
...Stern Gang and even the "moderate" Jewish Agency blamed the British for the preceding week's horror in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street (see cut), where an explosion had killed 54 Jews. The Arabs took the credit for setting off the blast, but the Jews preferred to believe that it had been the work of British troops. The wrecking of the train (whose soldier passengers could not possibly have had a part in the Ben Yehuda outrage) was a "reprisal...
TIME has stressed its interest in people by putting a picture of a person on almost every one of its 1,360 covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism...