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League pamphlets slash viciously at the Zionists. One shows a Jewish boy on his knees saying "I want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
...Zionist organs charge that all this talk has not put any refugees ashore in Palestine. The Zionist resistance movement, Haganah, claims that dozens of its ships have reached Palestine waters (where 30 have been seized by the British), whereas only one league-supported ship, referred to in Hecht's press releases as the Ben Hecht, ever got far enough to be seized...
Haganah sponsors hurl their own hot words at Hecht in full-page ads: "There are new playboys in America; they play with Jewish blood. The thrills of Hollywood are no longer sharp enough. They need lustier excitement, bolder showmanship. . . . They egg on the mad children of the Irgun: the distant whiff of bombs is headier than a cocktail...
...Feeling of Power. Hecht has no feeling that Palestine is the land for him. At his comfortable riverside estate at Nyack, on the Hudson, where a Hollywood "Oscar" is used as a doorstop, he lay on a couch and told Correspondent Evelyn Webber of the London Evening Standard how it felt to be a vicarious terrorist. As the Standard reported it: "I just talk. Arouse and excite the reader, and make him fighting mad. . . . Writing propaganda is like falling in love with yourself and the veiled wonders in your own brain. While I write I grow mystic. A feeling...
...Standard commented: "Near obscene terms . . . power lusts." Hecht came close to an apology-for him. He sent a "Letter to the People of Britain," later published as another fund-inviting ad in U.S. papers. The "Letter" began...