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Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...
...Arab attack touched off retaliation and counterretaliation. On the Syrian border, the Haganah dynamited a bridge. Arabs renewed their attacks on Jewish traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale...
Next day, organized Arab bands of about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
...story continued in the land to which New Jersey's cargo was addressed. In Jerusalem's sacred Old Walled City, violent fighting broke out. Arabs claimed that the Jews started it, retaliated with "Molotov cocktails" (bottles filled with gasoline and ignited). At week's end, Jewish terrorists blasted Arab headquarters in Jaffa and Jerusalem, killed 34, wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs...
...when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came three wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" . . . And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened...