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...letter, said Stalin, was "the most important document of recent times;" in contrast, the Smith-Molotov conversations had been inadequate. The Wallace letter made "an open and honest attempt to give a concrete program for a peaceful settlement...
Concluded Stalin: "As far as the U.S.S.R. is concerned, it considers that Mr. Wallace's program could serve as a good and fruitful basis [for agreement]. A peaceful settlement of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. is not only possible but also doubtlessly necessary in the interests of general peace...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...
...their part, moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Without outside help on a lavish scale, they could not support the present war budget of $48 million a year, or spare workers from field and factory for front-line duty...
...Fields of Gilead? But to work out a settlement would take cooler tempers then now prevail. For one thing, both Jews and Arabs would demand proof, in fact as well as on paper, that their contending forces were too evenly matched for either to dispose quickly of the other. There would be fighting in Palestine, then perhaps a stalemate which might lead to a settlement...