Word: haganah
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...object," said Lieut. General Sir Alan G. Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine, "is to restore those conditions of order without which no progress can be made toward a solution of the problem of Palestine." In fact, the object was the broadly based Jewish underground Haganah, responsible for illegal immigration of Jews, which has worked closely with the Jewish Agency. Haganah has insisted that its wellarmed, well-organized secret army exists only for self-defense against possible Arab attack...
...Palestine impatient Zionists, angered by Bevin's reluctance to open the country to 100,000 more Jews, moved to new violence. Haganah, the underground Zionist army (estimated at 80,000, with additional support from almost all the 550,000 other Jews in Palestine), in past months had blown up coastal radar stations to help illegal immigrants enter the country. Last week Haganah turned to violence not directly supporting immigration: its leaders boasted of destroying eight bridges into Syria and Trans-Jordan...
...Haganah men say that in the last four months they brought 7,000 out of 10,000 "illegals" safely through the British cordon. Once ashore, the travelers find the channels of absorption into the Jewish community efficient and heartwarming. One Polish girl's account...
...Bondage. Even as the committee spoke, the underground was shifting its human freight out of the villages of eastern Europe. Operated by Haganah (Hebrew for "self-defense"), the movement is largely financed by funds collected...