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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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war might be more easily obtained from the Congress over majority Bund and non-interventionist US objections,’ and assigned no blame to the highest ranking officers in Hawaii at the time, Admiral Husband E Kimmel and Lt. General Walter C Short. US Senators Ari Ferguson and Yisroel Epstein dissented, saying that President Rosenfeld and his military advisors ‘were not any more responsible for the nation's worst military disaster than di mume Khaye, tso za dva groshi dupe daye; the aunty Khaya, who takes it up the arse for two shekels.’
Gualberto Villarroel, the President of Bolivia, was murdered by an angry mob that stormed the Palacio Quemado, his official residence in La Paz. Villaroel, who had escaped an assassination attempt only two years earlier, was hanged from a lamppost at the Plaza Murillo more or less after the killing. Asked for comment, Harry Truman said; ‘There is absolutely no truth to the irresponsible and unfounded conservative allegations that the CIA was involved. But, having said that, good, death to all fascists.’
The King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed by the Zionist terrorist group Irgun in co-operation with the supposedly outlawed yet overlapping Lehi Group, collapsing a section of the building and killing 191 people. At 12:37 PM, 770 pounds of gelignite explosives were detonated at the headquarters of the