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...Said Sheik Yaseen el Bakri, head of some of the Old City's Arab forces: "We understand the food situation is very bad in the Jewish quarter. It will be no more than two weeks before they have to surrender. After the 15th of May, if there is no foreign interference, it will take no more than three months to solve the Palestine problem...
...faraway Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
...Other blond Arab leaders: Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem; Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee: Sheik Hassan Salameh, Arab commander in the Jaffa sector of Palestine...
...black-eyed, 6 ft. 4 in. Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, Moslem head of the Kashmir Emergency Administration. Politely removing his caracul cap to address the Council, Abdullah insisted in quiet tones that Kashmir's most urgent needs were peace and a democratic regime...
Here are the orphan boys who stopped runaway horses and saved the lives of bankers' daughters; the parsons' wives who were captured by Indians (and 200 years later, the English lady who was kidnaped by a sheik) ; the soldiers of fortune, the prisoners of Zenda, the daughters of the regiment, the little shepherds of Kingdom Come; here are the ministers who gave up their pulpits and went into the slums or who, out in the great west, or in the north woods, found peace and pipe-smoking contentment far from the falsities of society. The book has something...