PALESTINE: Be Seeing You?

From the slopes of Mount Lebanon last week came a sound like the rattling of scimitars. The Council of the seven-nation Arab League, meeting in a resort hotel overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean, had reached a tactical decision. With eyes on the debate in U.N., they manifestoed: Arab states would "take military precautions on the borders of Palestine." League spokesmen said troops would move up immediately. "Arabs will never accept partition," said Lebanese Premier Riad al-Sulh.

Stuff & Nonsense? Jerusalem's ex-Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, dropped in on the conference unexpectedly, and officially uninvited. He had simply flown up from Cairo...

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