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THIEVES IN THE NIGHT (357 pp.]-Arthur Koestler-Macmil...
...land there grew up a new race of rural Jews who knew nothing of the ghetto. Arthur Koestler describes them* as "mostly blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned and clumsy . . . haunted by no memories. . . They had no ancient curse upon them and no hysterical hopes; they had the peasant's love for the land, the schoolboy's patriotism, the self-righteousness of a very young nation. They were Sabras-nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus, grown on arid earth, tough, hard-living, scant...
...Koestler's novel an Arab effendi sums up the Palestine Arab attitude: "I care not for their hospitals and their schools. This is our country, you understand! We want no foreign benefactors. We want not to be patronized. We want to be left alone, you understand! We want to live our own way and we want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey...
...journalist in the Balkans and the Middle East, he now lives in England, has worked for the BBC since 1943. Companions of the Left Hand,* his second novel (the first: Beneath the Stone, 1945), is a sardonic political parable, overwritten in spots, preachy in others, but crafty, speculative and Koestler-like in its ambiguities and undertones...
...petitioned Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence at the Niirnberg trials for a question ing of Nazi prisoners, to clear Trotsky of the charge of dealing with them. Among the U.S. signers: Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, Critic Edmund Wilson, Novelist James Farrell. Among the British signers: H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler...