Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusion of Arab threat and British evasion that has followed publication of the report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, the un- or misinformed citizen is hard-put to choose a position of justice without stagnation. His leaders have failed him, failed to point out for the citizens of the world the path, at last discovered, to the solution of the Palestine problem...
...nation or even the UN to handle, and then to make a decision on the basis of its hearings. Arab, Jew, Briton, and American voiced approval of its purpose, its personnel, its methods; each rushed to present his side of the case. Yet publication of its report finds the Commission standing alone behind its proposals. Each contesting group is back in its own shell: violently opposed to the recommendations, ignoring them, or unwilling to do anything about them...
Jews and Arabs face the hour of reckoning. Zionists who have been living with an ideal will have to demonstrate the sincerity of their humanitarian appeals by compromising that ideal for the present, and fighting for implementation of the report. If the Arabs are to hold even a whit of respect in the eyes of the world, they will have to heed the warning of the Committee: "We hope that . . . those who have opposed the admission of these unfortunate people into Palestine . . . will look upon the situation again, . . . at least that they will not make the position of these sufferers...
...phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem of Palestine is a fact...
Full of such sidelights and highlights, My Three Years is good-natured, modest, knowledgeable reporting. It makes few judgments and adds only anecdotes-not insights-to the U.S. knowledge of Eisenhower. "I found myself," Butcher says, "continually in a dilemma while editing the diary. Some of the entries . . . appeared too brutally frank for publication. Yet I wanted to give the reader an honest report. . . ." He sold it for $175,000, the highest price of the war, to the Saturday Evening Post. Captain Butcher and his literary agent get it all, but Ike Eisenhower can be grateful to his old friend...