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Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
...surrender to the companies' terms. This week most of the 80,000 strikers trudged back to work-for the 9?-an-hour increase they had rejected at the strike's start 69 days before (TIME, May 24). For about 14,000 others the strike dragged on, pending settlement of other differences...
Last week, Joseph Stalin himself entered the "present historical phase" with aplomb. In a letter to Peace-in-our Timer Henry Wallace (TIME, May 24), he administered the familiar bromide: "Despite the difference in the economic systems and ideologies, the co-existence of these systems and a peaceful settlement of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. are not only possible but also doubtless necessary in the interests of general peace...
...statement was no more a gesture for peace than Adolf Hitler's promises, repeated after each new conquest, that henceforth he would behave? Of some 20 major agreements concluded between Soviet Russia and the U.S., Moscow has broken nearly all (except the military wartime agreements), from the settlement establishing diplomatic relations (wherein Moscow promised to stop supporting U.S. Communism) down to the Potsdam pact (wherein Moscow promised to treat Germany as an economic unit...
...rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications, Inc., got Superman and a comic called Superboy...