International: Battle in the Snow

News from Palestine sounded all the same: a score of Arabs killed here, a dozen Jews killed there. That was the day-to-day story of Palestine. Since the U.S. decided to support Palestine's partition, over a thousand Arabs, 750 Jews and 105 Britons have been killed. The U.S. reversed itself last week supposedly to stop the killing (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But war between Jews and Arabs seemed as inevitable as before.

"Wonderful!" cried Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League, when he heard the news of the U.S. decision. Then he added...

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