When Israel’s first prime minister applied for membership at Kibbutz Sde Boker, he wasn’t automatically welcomed. The 18 young men and women who had pitched their tents in the desert a year earlier were far from unanimous in confirming membership upon the aging statesman, who was then 67. By a margin of only one vote, […]
Newspaper articles U.N. and Palestine; Moslem Asks U.N. Help in Kashmir; Moslem Invaders Fleeing in Kashmir, India Reports, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 1947. U.N. and Kashmir; Gandhi’s Life in Danger, Doctors Say, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 15, 1948. India Mediation, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 1948. India Talks on Kashmir […]
In ancient times the irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys supported probably 10 million people in the kingdoms of Babylon and Nineveh. The deterioration and destruction of their irrigation works by the Mongol invasion centuries ago, and their neglect for ages, are responsible for the shrinkage of the population to about 3,500,000 people in […]
1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 77, 79, and 81, placing each territory under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or […]
Medieval W. Christendom Introduction Charters Images King Sancho VI of Navarre King Richard I of England King James I of Aragon Readmission to Speyer, 1352 Emperor Henry VII, 1312 Primary Texts Bishop Rudiger of Speyer, 1084 Charter Emperor Henry IV, 1090 Charter Count Raymond Berenguer IV of Barcelona, 1149 Charter Emperor Frederick I, 1157 Charter […]