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...From Jerusalem, TIME'S Don Burke cabled...
...what Christmas Week was like this year, I toured the holy places. I started at Jerusalem's Old City. Unlike old-time pilgrims, I needed an armed escort of British police. We entered at Jaffa Gate, headed down through the ancient Jewish quarter, where for ten days the Arabs had besieged some 3,500 Jews. Sniping still goes on day & night...
...Arabs will stay inside their respective fortified areas as the rest of the world celebrates the 1947 anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Peace. The bright star which guided the Wise Men to the Manger will probably be outshone by the Very lights which British troops in Jerusalem's Old City send up through the long hours of night to spot rooftop snipers. As a new state is aborning in this ancient land, Palestine knows no peace and men of good will are hard to find...
Speaking Swords. Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Cairo last week to keep an eye on League proceedings, said: "When the sword speaks, everything else must be silent." In Palestine his Arab organization was busy recruiting volunteers. At Lifta, a village near Jerusalem, Arab leader Sheilah Hasan Abou Saud exhorted Arab volunteers to fight Zionists. Beside him sat Kemal Ureikat, leader of the military organization Futu-wah (Youth...
While a jubilant world Jewry acclaimed the victory of partition (see FOREIGN NEWS), a quieter celebration went on last week in a modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...