Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of peace that left a lot to do for men like Roy Farran. Last year he was sent to Palestine to organize a group of ex-Commandos to counteract Jewish terror. Farran disliked the soft attitude of Britain's Palestine police ("Mild reproofs and a lot of tearful kissing"). Disguised as Jews, Farran and his men patrolled Palestine, rounding up suspects. He liked his work. "It was," he said, "as though we had drunk deeply of some invigorating fire...
When a 16-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
...from the violence of men, the Christian church once used to declare a "Truce of God." Churchmen in the U.S. and Europe have long been doing their best to bring about a modern Truce of God to protect the holy places of Palestine from destruction in Arab-Jewish fighting. This week as Arabs, Jews and U.N. officials negotiated their way toward a permanent truce for all Jerusalem, the Vatican sent one of its expert trouble shooters to the Holy Land...
...British Public Information Office, short on manpower, tries to give reasonably accurate handouts. But its sources often turn out to be the uncorroborated word of an Arab (or Jewish) constable of the Palestine Police...
...Confusion. So most correspondents 1) hang around the British P.I.O. for handouts, and pick the brains of Arab and Jewish newsmen in the bar; 2) attend the daily Jewish Agency press conference in Ben Yehuda Street; 3) pump their Jewish and Arab stringers and contacts. The only way of getting any accurate picture is to go out yourself, and this is getting harder...