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...upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it could be used as a barracks, complained bitterly to U. S. Consul General George Wadsworth at Jerusalem. Said General Dill, promptly putting the matter straight: "There has been a mistake.We only want the school playground to pitch our tents...
Palestine-It made no difference that War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper was lolling in the Balkans on a yachting cruise with King Edward. There were plenty of capable subordinates on hand when emergency cables began pouring into London from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in the opinion of the British residency in Palestine, was emerging from the Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment...
...High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish leaders in the Empire capital brought their influence to bear. The result...
...give his reign stature, Herod married Mariamne, daughter of the dynasty he had supplanted. In doing so he allied himself with a family that constantly plotted his overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members...
...hidden beneath last week's shootings was the deeper issue of an Arab family feud. Between the great Arab families, the Husseini and Nashashibi, bitter rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand Mufti...