Word: jaffa
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...Social Committee" to meet the demands of what is promising to be a gruelling, but-we-leve-it-after-dark season, has now been elected by the battalion. The election conclave had many of the aspects and all of the noise of a big-time affair. Pryor, Diano and Jaffa will hold the billets of President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer respectively. Said each of the office holders after his success,--Pryor, "Well, I'll be damned." Diano, "My dear, devoted and loyal constituents--" (Throw him out! Throw him out!--His devoted constituents shouted.) Jaffa--"Now boys, I want...
Just before midnight, the dread Hagana struck.* In ultramodern Tel Aviv, hallowed Jerusalem, bustling Haifa and old Jaffa the outlawed Jewish terrorists attacked British police stations, exploded bombs, fought running gun battles. When the violence waned, six British policemen lay dead, a dozen injured...
Palestine's peaceable Jewish majority promptly condemned the outrages, talked of vigilante drives against the outlaws. Palestine's British High Commissioner promptly took action: for Tel Aviv and the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa, a twelve-hour daily curfew beginning at 5 p.m.; for sabotage and terror, the death penalty. Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a million Arabs, already one of the world's most thoroughly policed lands, now felt more heavily than ever the tread of law & order...
What that meant was that Jewish settlement of Palestine was to be brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...