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...Asia's suffering cities, by virtue of its peculiar sanctity, destiny and tragedy, was a focus of world drama last week. Jerusalem, the thrice holy, a Christian, Jewish and Moslem shrine, dominated the bitter struggle over Palestine. The struggle involved the British Empire, world Judaism, Pan-Islam, Russia and inevitably, as a result of its new world eminence...
...Toulouse held it in the days when Italian money lenders flocking to Cahors made "caorism" a synonym for usury. The Bishops of Cahors, who held Mercuès longest, built a fortress there; and under its battlements rode robber barons, Knights Templar and hymn-singing pilgrims to Rome and Jerusalem. Henry II of England led his armoured warriors past Mercuès and Thomas à Beckett paused there on his way to become governor of Cahors. By the reign of Louis XIV the rich bishops had turned the fort into a château with a magnificent terrace where they...
...Contempt & Loathing." In Jerusalem, where the final death toll in the terrorist-wrecked King David Hotel had reached 91, barbed-wire barricades bristled in the streets. Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had issued instructions to British troops to boycott Jewish homes and stores: "Without the support, actual or passive, of the Jewish public, the terrorist gangs . . . would soon be unearthed, and in this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops...
...White Paper last week, the British Colonial Office reproduced telegrams it said had been exchanged between leaders of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem and their associates in London. The wires implicated the Agency, which has always deplored violence, in terrorists acts. Agency leaders hotly denied the accusations, but it was incontestable that Haganah, the Jewish defense organization, had recently broken precedent by publicly assuming responsibility for the bombing of Palestine bridges. With the King David Hotel outrage, the policy of terrorism had gone too far for moderate Zionists...
...which their forefathers aspired from Moses' time down to 100 B.C. (they lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...