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...themselves Palestine's senior partner. Their young men had served bravely with the British and won Britain's obligation and sympathy. When Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then tried to hold them down, they went right ahead bringing in homeless refugees from Hitler's Europe by the boatload. They fought and made their own state. The very day they proclaimed its independence, President Truman recognized Israel. The next day five Arab armies invaded the new republic. Israel hurled them back...
James Russell Lowell to England and Hawthorne as consul in Liverpool. The Robber Barons, who were the modern Medici, imported European treasures by the boatload, but Henry Adams found America "mortgaged to the railways." Henry James fled to Europe, and in 1913 Ezra Pound gloomily wrote of America's artists: "O helpless few in my country, 0 remnant enslaved...
...others for a second Olympic try. the 1952 winners are well aware of the difficulties ahead. Soft life in wardrooms, officers' clubs and pilots' seats larded them lightly with unnecessary ballast before orders brought them back to Annapolis. Of the 18 officer oarsmen (a second-string boatload also got orders to crew duty), nine had married, and five were already fathers: the old days of monastic concentration on the job at hand were gone for good. Hands had gone soft. Even after bathing them in alcohol and alum, some of the crewmen could not be sure their palms...
...playing games with a native enchantress named Laya Raki, even if the Maoris won't. Despite these novelties, the film very nearly talks itself to death before getting around to the big battle scene where all the adult whites are satisfactorily slaughtered. The film ends with a new boatload of settlers landing on the beach, complete with carpetbags and valises, and looking about them as if wondering which is the way to the desk clerk...
...intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload of the discontented are on their way to England and a better break. For most of them, the break comes in the heart. Aboard their slow ship, the islanders have plenty of time to talk things over. Many of them expect to study and learn trades. For, as Higgins...