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What is a ghost? What is an apparition? What is the nature of the dead, and can they ever still keep company with the living? These are questions that have occupied human minds for thousands of...

The Dhahran Airfield and Civil Air Terminal On February 14, 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal. This meeting would have lasting implications on U.S. – Saudi relations for years to come.  Though the two nations established diplomatic relations in 1939, no American official higher than a minister in the diplomatic service had ever met the king. It wasn’t until 1942 that the State Department posted its first resident envoy in Jeddah, a career officer named James Moose, the secon...

>> so in light of that what -- what are we to make of truman's innermost attitudes? is there -- is there a conclusion that can be drawn? >> yeah, i think people have used those coats to say truman was an antisemite who really didn't care about the jews and came out with statements like that. he ran into an arc and the state department's resistance and there was pressure by the american public and especiall the oanized american jewish militants who did put tremendous pressure on him, and this is really how he reacted and his aids would even say that was undue pressure he would explode...

were other people advising truman as well as well as max lowenthal, david niles and others. truman wanted a legal opinion. he went to a man named oscar ewing who ran the federal security agency. he said give me a judgment. would a jewish state be legal under international law? and ewing's study -- he concluded that a jewish state would be legal and not against any existing legal law. palestine had been turkish and the allies had given part of it to do jews who had a indisputable title and he recommended the u.s. stick to partition. now, at this point the issue is going to be turned b...