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...Palestine Government imposed military rule for the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern Jewish community in Palestine; Benet Beraq and numerous communal settlements in the area and the Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem, where 15,000 Jew reside...
...nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain): 'We tolerate the Christians.' At the journey's end I realized how few places there are in the Far East where such a trip was possible without the danger of getting shot...
...Hutterites are a group of almost 4,000 "Christian Communists" who broke away, in the 16th Century, from the Mennonites (see RELIGION). They have been in Canada since 1918. Albertans have not been overfriendly to them because of their aloofness (they have large families, live in isolated colonies), their communal farming (individuals own nothing, pool everything), their pacifism (they are conscientious objectors...
...planes began showering them with mixed (and heavy) blessings. Once, under an UNRRA truce, the Communists let 300,000 catties (200 tons) of millet and corn go into the city. Just as distribution was about to start, Nationalist airplanes arrived with more loaves and canned fishes, smashed several communal kitchens and sent grainbowls, chopsticks and people flying...
...strong, repressive arm of law & order would be no permanent solution in a country where the average per capita wage is 5? a day and a quarter of the population of Bombay and Calcutta sleep on the streets. But the other horn of the dilemma is unrestrained freedom for communal and class conflict which, in a weak, new state, might disastrously degenerate into chaos. Patel is obviously going to try it his way. The Boss has performed miracles of organization before...