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Just before midnight, the dread Hagana struck.* In ultramodern Tel Aviv, hallowed Jerusalem, bustling Haifa and old Jaffa the outlawed Jewish terrorists attacked British police stations, exploded bombs, fought running gun battles. When the violence waned, six British policemen lay dead, a dozen injured...
...broadcasting stations chiefly heard, Arabs listened most (in this order) to: Cairo, London, Jerusalem, Beirut, Sharq-el-Adna, Damascus, New York, Moscow. New York is static-bound (in summer) and in a poor position on the Arab's time schedule. Not enough Arabs know Russian to give Radio Moscow a good score...
...world news, London is more popular than its three nearest competitors (Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut) combined. It can also be heard more clearly than any but local stations. London made top score for the station which gives "the freshest news, and up to one-third of the listeners said that their own local stations had the stalest news...
From Cairo groups of 30 to 35 (60% Protestant, 35% Roman Catholic, 5% Jewish) entrain for the 350-mile railway trip (in open cars) to spend two or three days in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Says Chaplain Morrison: "It takes about twelve hard hours to see the highlights...
Most popular sights: Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa (Christ's road to Calvary), Omar's Mosque and Solomon's Temple, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Church of All Nations, the Dead Sea ("every one of the boys would take a swim although the water is so salty that you can hardly stand on the bottom...