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Precedents there were aplenty. In 70 A.D. Roman legions under Titus destroyed Jerusalem, slaughtered 1,100,000, sent 97,000 into slavery. Attila the Hun sacked and burned all of Northern Italy, spared Rome only after Pope Leo I appeared in the Hun camp with an eloquent plea for the Holy City. Genghis Khan butchered the people of Samarkand, razed the city...
...From Jerusalem the holy...
Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the wrath of the British Empire, whose peace he has been disturbing for the past 21 years...
...eluded a ten-year sentence for incitement to revolt by fleeing to Trans-Jordan. Pardoned, he returned to Jerusalem to incite more riots, fled in 1937 to the Mosque of Omar, a holy refuge...
Chicago had pitched its celebration on a deliberately optimistic note-but not without grave philosophical headshakings. It gathered scores of eminent scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics...