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...West's "mood piece" was probably the best by any of the 103 reporters in the Abbey; the New York, Times's Veteran Drew Middleton's was perhaps the best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
...Street of the Prophets. Further along, at 2:10 p.m., the radio in Car 755P sounded. The control room ordered: "Investigate Labor Department building." A minute or so later the car stopped near the building at the corner of the Street of the Prophets. As Middleton, carrying his old-style, drum-fed Tommy gun, climbed out, an excited clerk told him that at 2:10, several men carrying a large tin box had entered the building. They said it was a time bomb and would explode in 20 minutes; then they left...
...Middleton, Watts, and Hayes found the box in the chief clerk's office. Middleton returned to the car to report: "There's a tin box covered with filing cases. Have we to evacuate the surrounding buildings?" Replied the control operator: "Evacuate. Do you want bomb disposal?" Answered Middleton...
Watts and Hayes hooked ropes onto the box, started to haul it out. The rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...