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Then the fighting took an ominous turn. Soldiers of the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion, who have been expected to keep peace in Arab districts, fought with a convoy of Jewish vehicles which passed their camp. Fourteen more Jews died. Palestine was being in effect partitioned, in a way not planned by U.N., as armed forces on both sides dug in at fortified positions...
...Beauty. Occasionally Professor Morison interrupts his hurried pitching of facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...
Such are the implications of Morison's new book, "The Battle of the Atlantic," volume one of a 13-tome history of the U.S. Navy's role in World War II. This pre-declaration-of-war phase was the battle of the convoy versus the undersea wolf, and Morison tells how close the wolves came to starving out their English prey...
...Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar, a foot convoy of perhaps 100,000 Moslems made towards Lahore and Jinnah's Promised Land, at a rate of ten miles...
...always a help. But he came back with pictures that are an eloquent one-man record of World War II. Last week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before the boy was shot between the eyes. ("The last day, some of the best ones die. But those alive will fast forget...