Click here to view the original article. HAIFA, May 30 (AP)-Israeli army sources tonight said Jewish forces had captured the Arab towns of Lajjun and Megiddo, overlooking the plain of Armageddon, after a fierce battle. Meanwhile a dispatch from Joseph C. Goodwin, A. P. correspondent with the Arab Legion in Central Palestine, said allied Arab […]
Click here to view the original article. TEl AVIV. May 30-The Arab Legion is planning to use poison gas and heavy artillery in two lightning attacks on Jerusalem tonight and tomorrow, a Jewish spokesman claimed today. Air attacks are expected also. The spokesman said Legion command reports indicated plans to seize the main part of […]
Click here to view the original article. JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, May 30 (AP)-The Sunday Express of Johannesburg said in an editorial today that Dr. D. F. Malan’s new Nationalist government may break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The Express predicted the Malan government would stop Jewish immigration and impose restrictions on […]
Click here to view the original article. CAIRO, May 30 (AP)-Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary-general of the Arab League, said tonight “the Zionists who started this war in Palestine must be left alone to take the punishment they deserve.” It was Azzam Pasha’s first public declaration since the United Nations Security Council called on the […]
Austin scoffed at Arab claims that their armies had entered Palestine only for reasons of defense. “Defense against whom?” he asked. “Oh, Zionist bands of terrorists. It takes five armies surrounding this small area to overwhelm native bands in that little place, the size of my native State (Vermont).” Click here to view the original […]
“If the government had laid down the mandate when I first advised them to do so, it would have been a melancholy event, but the results would have been immeasurably less destructive and damaging than what has happened and is happening now.” – Winston Churchill Click here to view the original article. PERTH, Scotland, May […]
Click here to view the original article. Britain Offers To Join Sanction If Plan Rejected By the Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS. May 27-Britain tonight demanded a four-week armistice in Palestine and peaceful settlement of the Holy Land conflict. British Delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan told the Security Council if this attempt at peaceful solution failed, Britain […]
Click here to view the original article. The following account of the Israeli “Operation Broom,” in which the Arabs were swept from Northern Galilee, was written after a tour of the northern front, visits to three main Jewish headquarters there and talks with the commander of the campaign. By JAMES M. LONG Associated Press Staff […]
U.S. May Revive Sanctions Plan Arabs Report 800 Killed in Battle to Get Convoy Through Clash at Key Road Junction at Latrun Is Biggest of Palestine War; 1,500 of Haganah Forces Fail to Open Up Road to Jerusalem Click here to view the original article. By The United Press WITH ARAB LEGION IN THE FIELD […]
Sailing on Mauritania, He Hopes for Peace; Voices His Gratitude to U. S. “It is a sense of chagrin for us that the country we owe so much to and to which we have given the best we had has failed to recognize Israel” – Vera Weizmann. Click here to view the original article. Dr. […]