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Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
...Between 750 and 1000 illegal refugees enter Palestine each month," Arthur Bernstein, mate of the blockade-running ship Chaim Arlossoreff told a meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Society last night...
...steamer Northland churns its way towards the Holy Land today with its load of unwanted Jewish refugees, Arthur Bernstein, the man who trained its officers, will be some 5000 miles away in Hillel House giving the Harvard Zionist Society a picture of the blockade running business. His talk is set for 8 o'clock tonight...
...ancient, leaky, 1,814-ton Chesapeake Bay excursion boat, once known as the President Warfield but now grimly called Exodus 1947, last week unsteadily approached the Palestine coast. The Zionist flag flew at her mast, and 4,554 refugees-the largest number that ever tried to run the British blockade at one time-jammed her holds. The refugees knew that the British Navy's destroyers patrolled the coast; but perhaps they hoped that the presence of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) would embarrass the British sufficiently to let the Exodus slip...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...