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...Irgun terrorists had chosen a forest preserve south of the seaside, town of Natanya for their revenge. There, a voice informed Tel Aviv newspapers by telephone, Sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin could be found. And there, in a clearing heavy with the stench of death, the searchers found them. Their bloodied, blackened bodies swung to & fro from eucalyptus trees. Their shirts were wrapped around their heads. Through their clothes and flesh were pinned Irgun "communiqués" accusing the sergeants of "anti-Jewish crimes." They had died slowly, by clumsy strangulation...
Haganah, the moderate defense organization of the Jewish Agency tried vainly to curb the violence. In the all-Jewish city of Tel-Aviv, Haganah patrols clubbed Irgunists as they tried to hold up a Jewish shopkeeper. Haganah also carried its fight to New York last week, lashed out at remote-control Terrorist Ben Hecht and his American League for a Free Palestine. In a full-page advertisement, Haganah asked the public not to contribute to what it called "Traitors, Inc." "With your money," said the ad, "the Irgun and Stern groups killed 81 Britons, 59 Arabs and 42 Jews during...
...best; at Nant sur Corsier, Switzerland. Noted for his virtuosity (at 13, Hubermann played Brahms for Brahms himself, moved him to tears), Hubermann was one of the first artists to leave Hitler's Germany, spent much of his time thereafter organizing the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv and scribbling books in support of a United States of Europe...
...Palestine last week a bomb split the Egypt-Palestine night express train, carrying about 500 British troops. The dead: five British soldiers, three civilians. Near Tel-Aviv a van loaded with explosive blew up near a police billet: four British were killed. In Haifa, terrorists assassinated A. E. Conquest, chief of the British Criminal Investigation Department in northern Palestine...
...Matter of Prestige. Before dawn's light, the British Army moved its might into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other large towns. Loudspeakers blared that all residents must stay in their houses for 24 hours. At Safad a nervous British lieutenant called on Mrs. Helen Friedman, Dov Gruner's sister from Lancaster, Pa., and broke the news to her. She had seen her brother the day before and she had been told then that she could see him again this day. She sobbed, "Why did they do it? Why did they fool...