Asheville Citizen Times · 6 December 1947

CP-1947-046

Palestine

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-Continued From Page One once bought souvenirs were leveled. Twenty-thousand Egyptians gath- ered at Al Azhar mosque in Cairo and broke through police lines at a l threatening moment after hearing it a fiery priest call for a Holy War. But further demonstrations were curbed by the leaders.

A government ban curbed further demonstrations in Baghdad, Iraq, where a mob had sacked a U.S. information office. Beirut, Lebanon, ancient capital of the Phoenicians, a scene of a peaceful demonstration by 50,000 persons. From Damascus bles of future trouble for Palestine • c were loudest.

Basic military train- for volunteers at was started ing secondary and high schools, and Fawzi Bey Kawkazi, military lead- ed of the 1936 Palestine Arab re- volt, was reported eager to go on the warpath again. In most of peace was maintained by the par- allel action of Arab leaders and the British army which kept the

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"Palestine," Asheville Citizen Times, 6 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-046

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