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...Palestine, as at Flushing Meadow, there was joy among Jews. In the early morning hours, when news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...best, there will be guerrilla attacks on Jews. At worst (unless U.N., having decided partition, enforces it), there may be general Arab-Jewish warfare as soon as the British leave. In Jerusalem last week a Christian Arab housewife looked down from her balcony on cheering Jews. "Let them celebrate today," she muttered. "Soon they'll all be dead...
Walter Eytan, a former lecturer at Oxford University, and head of the press department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, will be joined by Major Aubrey Eban, liaison officer of the Agency...
Gelber told his small audeince that "If the Jews want to do anything in Palestine, they must be masters in their own home," and proposed that the modern, Jewish part of Jerusalem go to the Zionists in the partition...
...reports of troop movements increased. This week Palestine watchers said they saw Syrian Arabs, some with armored cars, pitching camp across the border. An "alert" had been sent to Haganah. Somebody (police thought the Arab underground organization, Jihad) tossed a bomb into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem...