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When Collins' companion gave the alarm, troops swarmed into the mazes of Jerusalem's ancient Moslem cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: A Knock on the Door | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Jerusalem the diggers were searching for truth in a city where every square yard is encrusted with stoutly defended legend. Recently they discovered evidence calculated to knock the props from under the holiest spot in Christendom, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...church lies well inside the present wall of Jerusalem. But this does not bother the traditionalists, who attribute this wall to the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. The wall enclosing the city at the time of the crucifixion, they say, was built by King Herod, and left Calvary outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Jerusalem, Irgunists attacked a British jeep with flamethrowers, tossed three hand grenades into the compound of the Syrian Orphanage, three others into the R.A.F. billet on the Street of the Prophets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fire & Blood | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Aviv, "Red Devils" of the British 6th Airborne Division rounded up 20,000 slum-dwelling Yemenite Jews, and hunted for members of the "Black Squad" which had kidnaped and whipped a British Army major and three sergeants (in retaliation for the caning of a convicted Jewish terrorist in Jerusalem's jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fire & Blood | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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