AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Britains Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, center, bacckground, standing in front of the fire place, opens the first plenary session of the 16-Nation Eur...

At the Paris delegation of duty, Greek Foreign minister Constantin Tsaldaris, Turkish Foreign Minister Ganec Mettin Sadas, British Foreign Minister Be...

Rhythmic Mermaids gather around the drummers in the big celebration held for

Members of the Jewish Defence Oraganisation Haganah, armed with sten guns, keep guard in an orange grove, near Rehovoth, Palestine, March 8, 1948, aft...

U.S. American citizens living in Germany are seen waiting in line, past the Carlton Hotel at the main train station in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany...

An injured Jewish couple walk past rescuers searching for wounded and dead people in the wreckage of shops on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 1...

The wreckage of shops on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 1948, after a bomb exploded. The bomb killed 52 Jews and wounded 100 more and levelled...

A young visitor stares at a 16th century knight in a museum in Chicago, Feb. 18, 1948. The museum is devoted to items from the medieval and Renaissan...

University of Kentucky star Ralph Beard (12) leaps for a shot at the basket against Alabama in Lexington, Feb. 16, 1948. (AP Photo)

University of Kentucky's Ralph Beard, right, takes off for a shot at the basket as Hayden Riley (99) of Alabama tries to stop him, Feb. 16, 1948, in L...

Dr. Sushila Nayyar, the personal physician of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Devadas Gandhi, youngest son of the Mahatma, seen Feb. 14, 1948 at Birla House,...

Ava Gandhi, left, and Manu Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi's granddaughters, who were with him when he was assassinated, hold the bloodstained kashmir shaw...

Mrs. Vernon Philips, hostess at the quilting bee in the parsonage in Francestown, N.H., sets out desserts brought for the

The urn containing the ashes of Mohandas K. Gandhi, assassinated Indian leader, is carried into the funeral car at New Delhi, Feb. 11, 1948. The trai...

Indians sit on the floor to pray and sing the favorite hymns of Mohandas K. Gandhi in the flower-filled funeral car of the assassinated Indian leader,...

Two trucks exploded on Ben Yehuda Street, in the heart of the Jewish business district of Jerusalem, Feb. 2, 1948, killing 27 people and injuring more...

A member of the 4th Battalion of the Madras regiment, with fellow soldiers standing guard, sifts through the ashes of the funeral pyre of Mohandas K....

Followers of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian patriot and spiritual leader, surround the flower-decked platform holding the ashes of the holy man, Feb. 1, 1...

Hindu women mourn within a bamboo enclosure at the rear grounds of Birla House, New Delhi, marking the spot where Mohandas K. Gandhi fell when he was...

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy,left, enjoy after quiet moments January 31, 1948 before reporting for their roles in the movie in which they're s...

Police, the military and volunteer guards attempt to beat back the crowds as it surges forward towards the funeral pyre of Mohandas K. Gandhi, assassi...

Members of the Indian community in London gather before a portrait of Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi in the British capital's India House, Jan. 31,...

Herbert Reiner, Jr., an American Navy officer, seized the assassin of Mohandas K. Gandhi before the police took him into custody, he said, Jan. 31, 19...

The body of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian patriot and spiritual leader, lies in state covered with rose petals in the Birla House in New Delhi, Jan. 30,...

An unidentified soldier points at the damaged brick wall outside Birla House in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 20, 1948. A home-made bomb was set off by a...

View of the Jewish settlement at Mettulla, on the Palestine-Lebanon border, Jan. 19, 1948, where arab troops have been attempting to cross. (AP Photo)

An armed arab volunteer, stand guard near upper Bakaa, Jerusalem, Jan. 19, 1948, the scene of much heavy fighting for many days. (AP Photo/Pringle)

A British Highland light infantryman, with a bren gun, on duty in a strongpoint overlooking the Jewish synagogue, big dome, in the old city of Jerusal...

Burmese Prime Minister Thakin Nu applies cement to the base of the Independence Monument in Rangoon, Jan. 4, 1948, when the new independent Republic o...

Chicago Cardinals coach Jimmy Conzelman musses the hair of running backs Charley Trippi, right, and Elmer Angsman as assistant coach Phil Handler, lef...

Two arabs, with arm bands and a rifle, prepare to check a lorry at their barricade of barbed wire and rocks, near Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Dec. 20, 1...

Britain's Earl Mountbatten, in naval uniform,centre, salutes the colours during the farewell march past of the last battalions of the British Army, st...

Britain's Earl Mountbatten, in naval uniform, left, salutes the colours as he inspects the farewell parade of the last battalions of the British Army,...

An Arab bus is peppered with shrapnel holes after the explosion of two anti-personnel bombs in the teeming section near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem...

British police load their kit and bedrolls onto trucks after handing over their police duties in the Ramat Gan area, near Tel Aviv, Palestine, Dec. 11...

The tented camp which has been instituted by the council of Tel Aviv, Palestine, Dec. 11, 1947, to house jewish families forced to flee from their hom...

Jewish refugees, who were living near the Jaffa - Tel Aviv border where there were bloody clashes between arabs and jews, are seen at their encampment...

German medical researcher Dr. Gerhard Domagk, collects his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Carl Gustav of Sweden in the Concert Hall, Stockholm, De...

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A crowd of arab demonstrators in Julians Way, Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which broke out as the arabs staged a three-day strike...

Police in armoured cars bar Jews from approaching the arab quarter,on Princess Mary Avenue, Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which mar...

An abandoned car burns in Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which marked the three-day strike by arab workers against the Palestine Par...

A crowd of arab demonstrators burn goods taken from Jewish homes in Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which broke out as the arabs stag...

Troops from the British Highland Light Infantry guard the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the outbreak of violence against...

A British soldier, armed with a bren gun, keeps guard along the Jaffa Road, Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which marked the three-da...

Soviet children in a nursery listen to their teacher who holds up a Teddy bear as she tells folk stories in a Russian classroom under a decorated port...

A 1948 photo of Karol Wojtyla, last row, right, during his two-year stay at the Belgian College in Rome. Wojtyla later became Pope John Paul II. (AP...

Vic Damone, teenage radio singing star, is seen, Dec. 1947. (AP Photo)

Jewish residents wave jubilantly in the streets in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Nov. 29, 1947. Celebrations began after the United Nations voted to partition...

Arab girls shop in the market place near Manger Square in Bethlehem, Nov. 28, 1947. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)