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Stalling? Republican leaders suspected that the Dutch were stalling to avoid any kind of settlement. In their "police action" last summer, Dutch troops seized the biggest towns and richest lands of Java, deprived the republic of rule over two-thirds of Java, parts of Sumatra and all of Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed...
...together at the same conference table. But both sides decided to send "working parties" of experts to Rhodes. "Negotiations are still in preliminary stages," said Bernadotte. "We must move gradually-a hasty step could spoil the prospects." One big obstacle still blocked the way to a possible settlement: the Jews said they would never give up Israeli sovereignty, the Arabs said they would never recognize...
This week Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce...
...headquarters for his Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below. In time, Wingate's "S.N.S." grew into Haganah's shock troops, Palmach. But that was after Wingate's day. The British government, which thought him too friendly to the Zionists, recalled him from Palestine...
...Hardy family perennial now grown to he-man's estate (Killer McCoy); by wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase Rooney, 21, whom he married when he was a private and she "Miss Birmingham"; after three years and eight months of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: $100,000 over ten years, $25,000 for a new house, $5,000 a year for the children...