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...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...
...Jerusalem, Irgunists attacked a British jeep with flamethrowers, tossed three hand grenades into the compound of the Syrian Orphanage, three others into the R.A.F. billet on the Street of the Prophets...
Quivering Detail. Most of the action took place at the "Tokyo Correspondents' Club" at No. 1 Shimbun Alley, the official billet for foreign correspondents. Hoberecht got most of its residents, and even its houseboys, between his covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo...
...become: how to fraternize. The G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to dinner: Army messes are off limits to Japanese; Japanese restaurants are off limits to Americans. A G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to U.S. Army or Japanese movie houses, to a swimming pool, beach, or his billet...
Also convicted in Bad Nauheim last week was Lichfield prosecution witness Fred C. Moore, a Negro private. For pummeling a German civilian who, he said, was caught rifling his billet, Private Moore was fined $180, sentenced to six months at hard labor...