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Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...
...Jerusalem worried High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope took time off from the Arab-Jewish riots that have plagued Jerusalem for a month to meet Haile Selassie at the station platform. A strike had tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky...
...Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed imminent. To be nearer this last badge of authority left him, Haile Selassie was prepared to leave Jerusalem soon for London, possibly make a dash for Geneva later in the spring for a dramatic appearance before the League of Nations...
...cheap Arab labor. Britain's mandate is also supposed to protect Arab rights, but two years ago young Arabs took matters into their own hands, organized terrorist gangs, began robbing and killing Jews. Fortnight ago one such gang held up a Jewish motorcade on a highway outside Jerusalem, killed a Jew. At the victim's funeral, orthodox and passionate, rioting Jews clashed with British police...
Everybody expected that the crisis would be reached during the noonday Friday (Moslem Sunday) service in Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar. The orthodox extremist Rabbi Moses Blau asked the Government to keep Arab villagers out of Jerusalem on that day, was told that the Government could not interfere in the religious affairs of the Arabs. Said the Rabbi: "That is the same reply I received on Aug. 23, 1929, just one hour before the big massacre of Jews began" (TIME, Sept...