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...members (four men, two women) of the advance party would need all the hardening they had. Keeping their arrival plans secret, they took off this week from New York City's LaGuardia Field. First stop: London. Destination: the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where, under British protection, they would try to prepare the way for the U.N. Palestine Commission...
Just before sunrise, an armored car and "three trucks, all manned by men in British uniform, drove into Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem's Jewish shopping district. A suspicious British police patrol followed, found the trucks abandoned and spewing smoke. Seconds later they disintegrated with a blast that crumpled nearby hotels, apartments and shops, ripped out windows for a mile around. In Ben Yehuda's rubble at least 52 lay dead, more than 100 wounded...
Jews blamed anti-Semitic members of the British forces for the outrage. They drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...
...helped win U.N. approval for partition, was now reluctant to support it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Arabs, who have stridently defied the U.N. plan ever since it was voted, last week repeated a familiar boast. Said the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine (which speaks for the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem) : Palestine Arabs will "never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition...
Jeremiah began his public life at the same time that the Book oj the Law was discovered in the temple at Jerusalem. On the basis of the Law the Jewish priesthood undertook a sweeping reform of current religious practice. Jeremiah bitterly opposed the resulting emphasis on ritual and statute. The priests and temple prophets threw him into bondage and imprisonment for his views, and sometimes his grief at Israel's indifference burst from him. in the kind of lamentation that ever since has been labeled with his name...