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Snapshots From The Jewish Capital
By Amos Gordon
With the front only 12 miles Brightly-coloured awal pro-fronts; men and women in fec way; Bhd with repeated air tect well-drooped fadlek wearing tories and offices who "Keep the ralas, I found the "Little Paris" the, latest New Look from the home front going." of the Middle East" goyer and merciless rays of the sun.
Tho
more carefree than I found Paris din of bands competing with one Air Incursion in the last war with the Germans another pours from 50 miles away.
I found the Tel Avivians as resolute as London- ers during the bliiz. Snapshot No. 1. civilians mingle
Jaicat Soldiers and "You
In the sentido Heal soldiers, refrain craft suddenly brings the copit-
negev.
in the Jewish "Lily
BOOM TOWN 1948
Britons Are Always · Welcome By Rodney Campbell
Ai
the
thin
World only Lia Angelón and and exciting. Take & walk down The air of boom town is heady Banang Muin Ard
than TIXEL IN ENG Whole
Johannesburg
faator Üsan Māpētām.
of
Alabama.
A young kamay reporter, who landed in America this month with #10 in his pocket and the determingtipp to spend your travelling the U.B. okrning his keep by odd jobs and newspa abcore of Snapshot No. 8. The shrill
par shments. He headed first for Texas, and trom Houston cafel. A Jewish crooner whining of the sirens, announe- he sends la Imerdesions of life in a large American pity today.
goes through the ing the approach of Egyptian air
Houston is the biggest town in the shatter-clatter of pneumatic me In the moonlit al's gaiety to a standstill. Like Texas, the biggest State, in the drills, the construction gangs,
Londoners of the blitz days. Tel USA cnfed. sipping cold fizzy drinks, In the next establishment Avivians hurriedly
spell the word BOUM. And peb- make their Sea bathers, defying the prohibi-band Hammers out the latest way to the shelters. Buses,balt
ple are coming frum all over the I.K.$18.00tion on bathing, are swimming Hollywood Conga. A few yards in the middle of the street. Mid- there. Many more live in out-Houston.
More than 100.000 people live world to find their fortunes in off the yellow sand beach under further down → French singer ale-aged Civic Guards nervously lying aftricts, among all derricks, HK.$38.00 the vigilant eye of coastal guards tries to outdo his collesática pin' op their arm bands and take cotton felay, abiteal blants,
erected H.K.$72.00USH
manning hostůly
foot-through an over-powered loud-up telt
Going Up thick reinforced concrete anti-speaker.
shelte0hr Year the airship yards, sulphur bede, ricc
anti-blast walls invasion emplacements.
felds, cattle, pens, natural gas The sun sets, throwing blood. Parted the
ox-Prusian storage tanks and lumber yards ready now ream and sandstone-
Everything is going up. Snapshot. No. 2 The Jewish
shot rays over the dark blus en effeer AR.F. warden puts on his and all the impedimenta of mo- rotouret skyscrapers break capital is Babylon of languages.......young soldiers and their fled-on spiked Rater nettet dern industry that is building up clear blue Texns sky where there As I walk the overcrowded sun-girl friends it up the dancing with the engle shining brightly one of the greatest booms of the was a desert 100 years ago, and and Mr. scorched streets I can hear every floors, of the dimmed-put cafes. in the sun, saying "It may save 20th century: George Pearson of 200a language on earth, Hebrew rubs Snapshot No. 6. The British life one of these days" as 1
now Texans aro Prince Edward Road and Mra shoulders with
talking of Eaglish, English Army's chrome yellow signs
him. plat B. D'Almada wish to thank with Russiari, Russian with Ger- trang from
In the whole world only New York's Empiro State, building a taller building where the soldiers The cares all relatives and friends for
are silenced, the Califórnia Fuliding fuster"] man, Gurman with Arabic, left them. "AU troops will re-chama left in disorder the We attendance at the funeral of Arabic with Greek. their beloved Maureen, and
port to CMP." reads one. while coping Batrons. A mal group floral tributes and ex-
unother says "Guarded car park of goldiets remama the
sitting un Varied Uniforms 50 yards ahead." The signs have concernedly. All the bands are
Folk Texus' 'or pressions of sympathy. A
Snapshot No. 3. The uniforms changed no more than the Bri-silenced but for the crooner sing- High Requiem Mass will be
(Americans don't us offered
Marikatus.”*. 1 EL
tlah Army Services Clubs, The Theresa's of the Israeli Army-the young-Ark," "Scopus," and the "Com-The refrain You and me in the 3,000,000 people will be living indo.) It is a fantastic scene.
Lloyd's win give odda thái street or avenue as often as we Church, Kowloon on Friday, est army in the world-are as August 6, 1918 at 7.30 a.m.
varied
rades Club," known to thousands as the languages which of British Tommies of the moonlit Negev" follows me to the Houston years from today. for the soul of the deceased. | çân . be heard in Tel Aviv.
post office where I try to report Proud Texans say that Houston Slouch-hatted Palmakh
used by Jowish (Elite) war are now
another
on the Jewish will be the 21st century capital wear British paratroopers
opera soldiers on leave in the town.
capital.
of the world. Snapshot No. 7. Behind the The last strains of the song Jumping jackets, HOSPITAL AFFAIR while ex-French Maquis who frivolity and carefree appearance linger po amidst the thuds of ox-
fought the Germans
of Tel Aviv there is the working community of men and the ack-ck halffric Bursting town, funky placarded Hoardings iner suits as tropical as any The Coroner's strictures at their
French Alu wear mufflers on
heads. their
The
with in the streets, a follice work of thing worn in Bombay or Singa- regulation women whose sons and daughter shefts smudging thể Tuesday's inquest describing headgear is the Afrika Corps
are fighting on the Palestine their smoke. cap. as deplorable the conditions. Slepi helmets too all shapes existent at the Hong Kong and nationalities regular British
dispatch rider Sanatorium and Tung Wah Helmets, the American
crack bowl- Eastern Hospital · did not chaped naval
helmet.
have! over-state the position. Fri-even seen a German apiked hel- vate
Institutions naturally, met of the last two wars with do not desire to become German Eagle
There is very little that is new spike fled off, but with the
·lèss' prepared for emergencies shining casualty clearance stations
in the in warfare, though the forms of
than she was even in 1990. sun,
worn by an uhmlatakably change. All history shows how
At a time when pations are and they especially have no former Prussian officer now do the struggle for power can con-
not mobilised, or only just be- welcome for cases like-ing A.R.P. warden's duty,
tinue in so-called peace, and how and that was by air. The truly ginning to mobiling, a widespread. ly to call at some stage for Snapshot No.
proceed With the war conquest can
without
fiercely determined Astonishing thing about Hitler is descent of
Prices are high, Steak costs police intervention, but when only 20 minutes' drive from the open conflict-through com-thaf blthough he had pelted on paratroops might have much 58. ab lamb costs 3. Ad It is a matter of life ordreds of volunteers in the town anda,
of the town I found hun-bination of infiltrating
propag: the art of airbone Invasion he treater effect than it ever did in chicken about the same. political pressure, and failed to develop it for the most be last war. It could produce office girl's hamburger lunch and death there can be no con- from far-flung corners
of the underground forces.
important of all his operations... chaps.
iced tea would cost hér is. Od ceivable excuse for failure world. They came, from Poland,
the defeat and occupation. of
The degree of surprise would the Bri-
business executive's lunch to render all possible emer-
the United States. The That is what is going on now. tain.
be increased by any tendency in anything up to £1. mast gency aid, and still less in
But the Western Powers have picturesque of the lot is a
the Western countries to discount 18 stone,
if, and 6-foot been slow to perceive
Had Germany possessed the strength or value of Russia's "General"
from
slower still to counter it
large force of such troops in sirborne forces merely because of the
camouflaged 1940, Nicaragua. His portly figure is
present
and thrown' them into their non-use in the Inst war.
the
centre
France,
in
Cattle canchors Lit chaps traight from a Hollywood albüm walk arm-in-arm with girls wearing Nowest Look Paris bare- shoulder fashions. Ollmen in sprawling tolle to business men in crumpled
a hard-ploding bombs and the sound of ) hüion as you arrive in the liver painted hals and dungarees
bustling
alled a climbing girders,
The Immediate Defence Of
1
Britain
the plea that no emergency equipment was available.
For those who may have to be seën nightly in Tel Aviv's War", should turn into open England at the time of Dunkirk,
fashionable bars. When I first
overlooked the record of the mist him he told me he came." It is to be hoped that we the effect would probably have
inquest, the facts are worthy see Palestine's holy sites."
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Besides the prospect of 'prite The Sniper's Bullet fence chiefs should be awake to
The Great Mystery
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Teen-agers
anl houswives drive in shining Eutck eights of rusty old Fords.
The Americas frene, the deep South and the great Wild West, all come together in Houston, and swelter at 90 in the shade.
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Prices High
The
Young married, Katharine Moody, whose hushend served in Britain during the war, Has to ppy 17s. 6d for new pyjamas, es 15s, for n nummer dress, 254. for a pair of sandals or 24 11. 60 for a vacuum cleûner.
lumns of Maca adorn the Houston
shall not again be caught offbeen décisive. guard by other development which we have not foreseen.
It is not enough that our de- form, they show that a
Her hutband pays 25%. for a woman suffering from lysql
weapons they include that of
the risk and have their measures Panama hat, £ 10s. for his Wearing the shiny uniform of surprise mover,
Hiller. had then barely 5,000 ready to meet it. A cloar indi-shoes. £15 for a lightweight suit poisoning self-administered the US Army with no insignia, Here the prevailing view scoms parachute troops backed by one cation that the possibility, is co- and fis, för à hajreut. was refused first-aid at two four rows of niedals, the colours to be that the worst case with air transportable division (about pognised on this side
might of which put the rainbow to which hospitals to which she was shame, and a few trinkets pinned the warly stages us that of be- depleted by their efforts in un chances would depend so much again as the Bin half us high
But salaries are as we should have to reckon 12,000 men) and these had been a final deterrent to it since taken by her husband. He to his breast pocket with ordin- ing thrown back to the position conquest of Holland.
on, its unexpectedness. It is im- and there are plenty of jobs. was told that the proper place ary safety pins, he raises a com- of 1940-with England as
portant, also, that the public to take her was the Queen motion whenever he enters atsolated island on the edge of an
Even so, General Student, the should be forewarned of the The Texans Hre the most Mary Hospital, which she public place. Rumour says he is occupied Continent.
Commander-Chief of Germany's possibility; for that is the way to world-minded people in the did not reach until she was focrat who settled in Nicaragus the son of a rich Hungarian urls-
Airborne Forces, told
the me adter minimise
confusion that USA Their State is big enough be beyond medical aid. Whether raising bananas and cattle.
might produced
by such aj to hold three Englands, a Scot- if attempted.
land and ten Wales. But it is earlier treatment-might have head of cattle range from 10.000
co-operation of the people proud of its British tradition, and prevented the tragedy can-to 30,000, depending on
There is a general assumption
is also desirable in a more activo extends a welcoming hand to as not, of course, strated one way or the other neral" loves variety in}
that, even if the countries of Imagination. be demon-
sense. However affective the many British people as want to Western
new
devices and
counter vilt or live there. guns as much B in his me- England would be in no Imme
nieasures The crime consisted not in dals. Ile breakfasts with an out-diate danger.
planned by the regular Defence Servicós
Already 5,000 Britons have ar- may be, ww any error in diagnosis, but size Coil Junches with a horn- It is not a safe assumption. the war that he had favoured! should be better insured if at fived, since the end of the win in disinclination, according handled forty-eighter, dines One of the greatest puzzies of the idea of dropping all the avail-lenst the cadres of the old Home Union Jacks are shown at to the published reports, to Humour sd says he is an ex-slans made no use of parachute chief ports in Southern England is now a younger generation, and telep back.
adel-plated Browning. World War II. is why the Rus- able parachute troops on the Guard were still f'belig. There Houston Junch clubs and 30 co- take any steps in the matter offer of the Foreign Legion
before our troops had been eva- one that ombodies plenty of at all. Inspector MacKenzio
unhappily a
harried and that he The Germans seized the keys cuated from Dunkirk
Dghting experience and skill, who conducted the investiga came to this war-torn country to of Holland and Belgium with Bat Student was knocked qut tion on behalf of the police find way, fame, fortune and love. such forces in 1940, and, in 1941 by a sniper's ballet at Rotterdam, valable to all its ranka. showed that those directly dont know, but he recently means. Later in the war the let on Hitler-one of those tigal, who are charged with
Whether he found the last three captured Crate by the same and was unable to press his pro- The leaders, military, and poli responsible were not in fact confided 10 me when his bulk Western Allies used them on a minor incidents which perhaps ence of these falanda carrying out hospital regula- was perched dangerously on a 3. still larger scale in the Invasion have altered the march of his- Wall consider. NOW Wheth tions, but there was a sug-feet high stool in a bar: "Wat of Normandy, the drive for the toky
you tink, 1 come to Aght and
So, balked by the English Rusalóns had beef the ke Napoleon, to a quatier Channel, Hitler turned eastward, believed themselves to be the face
face, he added angrily "He pioneers in this new fleid. "As carrying out hospital policy tell me I can be a sergeant or far back as 1935 they had carried where he thought he could affec
tively exert the strength of h16- JewEn Afmy, me, à blgut mus parachute drops in Die land forces.
expert sat as Coroner, expressed his
Army manoeuvres, and had the event he exhausted Ger opinion of the events in no with БОЛА
ime Martini, while a from Moscow to Vladivostok. uncertain terms, but did not blonde manicurist from a neigh-|| go farther in search of re-bouring barber shop sitting next medy than to recomment to to him glued her eyes consoling- the Directors of the two ly to his rounded face.
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hours around the clock human-remacy, they
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