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THE CHINA” MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952 -7

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JERUSALEM 1952-THE ONE DAY WHEN THEY FORGET HATREDS

UST for one day in the. year, the high barbed

a wire that cuts the Holy City in two is pushed aside and Jew and Arab forget their hatred, and the two nectors of Jerusalem,

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By MONICA DEHN

modern and Jewish in the have stared sullenly at each one alde, ancient and Arab other across the few yarda on the other, are joined. of no man's land and kept a

The year round. Arab tensed finger on the trig Legion guards, in their gay red and white checked head-

But from Christmas Eve un- dresses, and Israel soldiers, u the end of Christmas Day, wearing British buttledress, the barriers are pushed aside,

ger.

SANTA TO TRAVEL BY HELICOPTER

SANTA Claus will arrive

by helicopter. to dia- tribute gifts to 350 British orphan children at a Christ- mas party to be given on. December 22 by U.S. Army personnel in the United Kingdom.

Chartered buses will

collect

the children from orphanages and

other children's homes in

Cam-

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the rifles held a little absent- Moneyporny, the only terles' and convents of Nazareth mindedly. For across the lines diplomat stationed on the Arab and Tiberias and the Mount of

Crosses the are streaming Christian wor side of the lines who

Transfiguration; orphan shippers from Israel on their into Israel to join the pil children in the care of religious annual pilgrimage to Beible grimage.

hem.

this

erders; the elderly, maimed and All the members of the Con- weak of the Christian charitable diplomatic institutions in Jerusalem. With sular Corps are in

of drem. Their cocked hats gilfter them are the, hundreds with braid, their silver swords Israel's Christian Arabs lying gleam through the blackness of the cold Jerusalem midwinter in the villages of Galilee for whom Christmas is the one oc- casion on which they can meet members of their families on the other side."

From mid-November on wards, Jerusalem's Jews phd Arabs have worked closely to gether to make possiblo brief demonstration of Christ mas peace and goodwill,

night, The names of Christians As the convoy moves off, the ye of 'Come all eager to travel to Christ's birth sweet notes

road faithful peel from the bells in

But, in 24 hours the make- place along the winding

by the tower of the pale pink stone

belleve peace comes abruptly to carved out of the hillside Palestine Arabs during the YMCA opposite.

on cnd. The last straggler 19 Arab-Jewish war, are first scrutinised

'into pushed unceremoniously by the Trac

Israel and the,high barbed wire Then they are passed to

barriers are rolled back Into dan through the good offices of

minutes later the place. Once again. Arab Legion the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armi

and

alock tice Commission

limousines guards and Israel soldiers store Anally diplomats

up at the border, sullenly at each other across the returned to the Governor of draw modern Jerusalem, Dr. Abra stone's throw from the palatial few yards of no man's land.

of. Palestine's' High ham Biron, for, a final check, home

U.N. headquarters. And by the light of roaring bonfires, Arab Legionnaires and Iardells

Ten

woners now

.D'

the

In chorus, Jew and. Arab call

And at 7 pm, on Christmas together give the pilgrims their brilige, Ely, Bury St. Edmunds, Eve, as the star which gulded last check-over. 1 Newmarket and towns up to 30 the three wise men begins to miles from the air base. Each twinkle in the Eastern aly..

group of child will be assigned one soldier first

pilgrims out Merry Christmas, Merry "foster parent" as its escort for assembles outside the revolving Christmas and give each other the day to ensure that the child doors of the luxurious King the one mile of the year. Then,

David Hotel, enjoys the party.

There will be a cinema show

members:

RIGHT: A member of the Arab... National Guard socks Information from

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mounted shepherd outside St Stephen's Gate, looking. towards the Mount of Olives in unrestful Palas- tine. Churches seen in the picture are the Russion Orthodox Church fin grove with a flourish, they wave the pilgrims onwards Lowards the of trees) and, lower, the ers of geld of the shepherds and on to For the biggest party, which is with animated cartoons and a Jerusalem's Consular Corps of midnight Mags: at the Stable Church of All Nations,

·'reputed to be erected: being held at the RAF, station, Christmas dinner, the same as of UN agencies working in site.

over" "the___ Garden of Lakenheath, ·Amerleans · have the US. Forces themselves will Israel, and they line up formal-

Next, -momlig, as the weary. Gethsaidano,,, Inft: la ens voluntarily contributed on each have on Christmas day. Is In order of precedence. First

comea the Dean of the Consular diplomats return, a second group pay day since September. Over $2,000 (nearly £900) will be There will be another party Corps In Jerusaleine Check of about 100 bilgrims sets outed the rock on which spent on the party, mostly for Newmariter General Hospital Consul General Autoing them; from Iarvel to Bethlehem. These, Christ prayed on the night betrayed by Judas specially ordered and wrapped during the Christmas season for Britain's Consul-Ceneral in the include the priests, and runs Holy City, MP H. R. D. Gibbod who live in the quiet monas-

Roman soldiers. gifts.

sick and crippled children.

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