[Homer_J_Simpson]

The battle was the culmination of a week’s military siege of the “Bloody Triangle,” an area bounded by the towns of Nablus, Jenin and Tul Karm.

Familiar place names.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here are few short articles from 3/6/38. What I want to know is, how do the people on the ground know how to land the plane remotely if they don't know where it is?

Seed attached to Paper To Improve Lawn Making

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, March 5. – Vincent Hartley, 34-year-old Lancashire clerk, claims to have solved the difficult task of planting a lawn by first attaching seed to a soluble tissue paper.

The seeds are set in rows, three-eighths of an inch apart. The amateur can paper his outworn lawn, cover it with light soil and leave the rest to nature.

The paper sheets can be cut with scissors to fit curved and irregular places.

Sheets three by two feet will cost five pence to twelve pence according to the quality of the seed.

LANDING DEVICE ENDS ARIPORT FOG DANGER

Army’s Successful Test of It Is Reported by Assistant Secretary Johnson

WHEELING, W. Va., March 5 (AP). – Louis A. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, said in and interview tonight that the army had perfected an automatic landing device which eliminates the danger of fogs at airports.

Reporting “more than fifty successful landings” by this method he said:

“The pilot merely sits in the ship, keeps hands and feet off the controls, and the plane is landed by men operating the device from the ground.”

He said that he made a recent flight from Chicago to Washington in two and a half hours in an army stratosphere plane flying 368 miles an hour at 25,000 feet.

In an address here tonight at the midwinter conference of the Legion of Honor Mr. Johnson, former national commander of the American Legion, said that it was time for “those who love America” to pledge themselves anew to the “sound and healthy principles of Americanism.”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Real time + 70 years ping.

Reply #2 has couple short articles.

[BroJoeK]

If I may,
The key points to remember here are that by the end of the First World War, the Brits had over a million troops in the Middle East.

And that’s how they finally defeated the Ottoman Turks, after previous disasters at Galipoli and in Iraq.

(And BTW, this was ONLY even possible because of the US committment of millions of troops to France)

The Brits formed alliances with Arab leaders (remember Lawrence of Arabia), and the deal was: Arabs help Brits overthrow Ottomans, Arabs get their own countries, and the Jews get a homeland in Palestine (1917 Balfour Declaration).

That was the deal, and it held until after the war, and most British troops withdrew...
And now the Arabs decided they not only wanted the countries they’d been promised, but they wanted Palestine too. No homeland for the Jews, except maybe under Arab rulers.

The rest, as they say, is history...