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...Augarten finally took off after finals in 1948 without telling his family he was going. After landing in Italy he proceeded to Czechoslovakia and trained for several weeks. The Czechs, he explained, are helping Palestine, but realize that Communism can make no headway against Zionism, which in a nationalistic movement...
...Augarten and some others did not accept this pay. Others were strictly mercenaries or adventurers who left whenever they felt like it. Any one was free to go home when he wanted...
...spite of these handicaps few men were killed; the Israell air corps did considerably better than the Egyptians, shooting down 24 of the enemy and executing several bombing raids on Damascus, Cairo, and El Arish, which lowered Arab moral. Mr. Augarten who found the Czoch Messerschmits an inferier successer to the Garman model destroyed four Egyptians, two better than his total score over Germany...
...Augarten says, that an a Jew he feels an allegiance to Israel similar to that an American-born Irishman would have felt towards the IRA in 1922. He would like to return to Palestine, but not to live, although he is very hopeful for the land. "They ought to be able to hold their present boundaries," he says. He has worked with a tent-housed agricultural group in the desert, and knows that if the country can support the population of three million the Jews are planning. The biggest problem today is handling the huge group of immigrants recently absorbed...
...veteran for the second time, Mr. Augarten does not find it hard to settle down in Eliot House. While finishing off his last term in International government he is writing a 25,000 word diary of his year abroad...