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THERE ARE OTHER WAYS OF GETTING TO THE WEST THẦN GOING WESTWARD
Half A Million Arabs
Legions Of The Lost
H
BEIRUT.
ERE it all begins again, There is a hopeless-feel ing that one has had it enough already, that one will never, altogether escape the sight again-that dreary trail of the homeless and hungry, the forlorn by-product of battic, the refugees.
Now they are the Arabs. In the been years they have last few varieties of almost every 'melancholy race in the human list; now at last flight comes the Arabs' turn, the
land.
from
over-promised
the Exodus in reverse,
.
up
C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE
MR MAYOR HITS OUT
NEW YORK.
N ex-boxer, Kid Canaday, elected mayor of AN
Pomeroy, Ohio (pop. 3,581), found himself: on the ropes a fortnight later.
He was in his office counting up the Anca he has collected, when a messenger arrived from the. State capital. He told the Kid he had been suspended.
The reason: complaints had been received that he had been treating those Anes as if they were meant for -his-purse, Ten
The Kid clenched his fists und, usod sume un- mayoral language to describe the two Torier in town who, he declared, had made this falso complaint. embarrass him.
to
Then he remembered that he was no longer the Kid, but His Worship Mayor Delmar A. Canaday.
He made this official comment: "Why, this insults my dignity. And I will prove they are all Hars. I will come out fighting."
FRONT-PAGE NEWS was made in every U.S. nows-
a
paper by the announcement that Yalo, America's -Oxford, has become the first university to appoint
Negro captain of its first clover foolball team. "It's swell," and Lovl Jackson, better known as "The Ebony Express" His father is a waiter in the Yale dining hall.
Join The
Rhaphael Cilento, has said that what bas been done is minute. that un- something like £7 million worth of goods is producod-and fast Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan. many hundred thousand people are likely to die quite abruptly and quite soon.
imposes a powerful code of charity. on the Ags and wines they found,
their hosts- on donations from
It's pretty cold
and
searching weather by the Mediterranean to night. A moon like a frozen melen Rights the hills of the Lebanon," white-powdert'd with the first snows, There will soon be good ski-ing.
visibly with Belrut swelled
crowd as UNESCO's polyglot delegater arrived for their can- minds ference, though indeed their ate on other matters.
Not many miles from here is u
town great canvas evacuco
ot
million Today more than half a
are squatting, huddling. of them bunching in camps, and crowds and down the fringes of Palestine, thousands and thousands-no one is sure of the number in big 20-man fugitives of a finished fight.
They have no particular political tents, men, women, and children, u the Palestine tragedy. that brought old them here, you cannot ignore that more dismal they are here, one problem all the bleaker because we know it so well
But the Arab States are not rich in food, In the main they are im- porters of whest and os short of dollars as the rest of us. There is fact, practically In stark nothing left to ent
now.
And the battling is as good as. over from Genefal Alley himself, chief of staff to the mediator, comes the opinion that i Palestine the war is over and the Jews have won, and that is that.
Even if relief should come, where do these people co?
This is the first time I have been In these parts since war came to
Palestine. I have found an emotion and bitterness here as powerful as
the emotion and bitterness I have
JAMES CAMERON
I
WITH A HOPE that the American Legion as a whole will follow
Louisiana, suit, the Crowler. post of this ex-Servicemen's organi- sation today voted to drop the use of the term "Comrade." The reason: It is "too red."
WASHINGTON says there may
soon be another F. D. R. In the American Government, President Truman is thinking of making Roosevelt's son Secretary of the Navy. And that is the department In which F. D. R. senior began.
AF
FTER TRYING to keep out of Britain's steel nationalisation argument, the American Press gave up. The New York Herald-Tribune, after printing four columns of last week's Commons debate, had this to #ay..
די.
symbolism. However you feel about good third of them under six years Just left behind in New York- half million hunched under their as much an hour as the average
The Arabs, however, are no lung
to be wrangled at term question leisure by some United Nations sub- committee.
right There are 62,000 of them
In Trans- hero in the Lebanon.
Another half jordan 88,000 more. million are still in Palestine itself.
THEY ARE HUNGRY
THEY are peasants, smallholders, croppera. Mainly ignorant, few
of them have much notion what it is all about. And they are hungry. make They are poor, malerial to propaganda about.
am not a Zionist and I have no Interest in the Arab League. All I wonder is: for how much longer will
job as a reporter keep taking me Among these sinuless and desperate communities of uprooted people Arab refugees, Jewish refugees, Mos- lem and Chinese refugees, Sikh, Polish, German, all the desolate in- ternational residue of other peuples wars?
have anwering Refugee camps sameness of rootlessness, improvi
Perhaps because they are the temporary bivouac.
One
..}
equally one-sided, but the other
side.
"If Sir Stafford's goal is produc- tion, he would be well advised to more than a droning noise in the
leave well enough alone. It he is Palais de Chaillot.
Now, how much more don't engaged in a bit of political appease know, but wherever I go here ment of the Left-wing of his own I can see for myself the uniforms party, it is a very dangerous game: with the blue and white UNO arm-lie is playing." bands-the truce observers, the men this with what is probably at moment the most ironic job in hic A NEW Washington survey say
that the average American fac- world.
They cannot help the despairing tory worker now turns out twice tent poles and cedar trees, they have British worker. no rice and no milk,
RAIN MAN-MADE What have they got? I don't know. What have I got?-for, after guaranteed yet. America's alr all, I suppose I helped to send them force has been experimenting for here. That I don't know elther nine months with a sciential's theory If relief is to come it must come that dry ice sprinkled on clouds will at once, Very soon-in almost a
cause rain. Today it gave up. It just had not produced criough rain. matter of days they tell me it will be too late to help for this winter. Meanwhile, intolerance moves in and the columns of refugees move Germany, from India, from Pakistan, out, as it has happened before, from from Poland-and, Indeed, If I re her triumph in the death of babies on the All over Betrul I am reminded member, from Egypt, when Moses bounty of Arabs near by, for Islam that the United Nations is something led the way.
waits
The Arab; who always seems to feel the
more milterably. cold
wraps his face than anyone else. tightly in his headcloth and silently. And still he is luckier than the thousands more in Jordan Val- ley, who have no tents nor covering who are sheltering under olive trees and the sides of rocks.
To begin with, in the labour, and emotion of the war, it was all an urgent expedient. The D.P.-how reluctantly this age gives up that recurrent phrasel-lived
20
RELIEF SOON OR—
THE
ful tradition of exile and persecu. E Jews, with their own sorrow- tion, show a new face in victory, a strange, relentless. Old Testament face that looks rigidly at a suffer ing it has so often seen itselt.
Jerael, which has known 20 cen- commemorate turies of oppression, would make an awesome decision to
connot bo
LL THE BIG 16-inch coastal guns guarding America's Eastern shore are to be scrapped. That not a disarmament move. It is just that nowadays planes could do better job.
Who says it's not the time to have a family?
DON'T know if the circles
They say it so often, these people, and there are so many of them that I sometimes wonder when they think that will be the time. Or, for matter, when won
by BERNARD, WICKSTEED
the
་་་
childless
"THAT'S DIFFERENT'
FOT
the Stone Age The later singe We used to have a posh flat, and It is one of our great regrets that
are jolly lucky was one of the supreme eras in the we listened to them as long as now we think we
difficulties of existence: were so I move in are more than we did. The peace followed. Surely to have rooms. We used to run a story of the human race. The very My parents sent me to expen- grent that man rose above himself and so became sition, need, bewilderment. It does usually sophisticated, and cynt. If ever there was a right me to car. Now we can't.
baby it was then. But no.
schools to which wo shall to overcome them not take long before there arrives cal, but I am always coming have a
to send our own the master of his destiny." the Onal resemblance, a quality of across people who say this is no Would you belleve it? The world sivo
a heritage ke You can't ditch despair.
First it was the wicked Socialists children. But that is no reason for time, to have a baby. If you was too unsettled. We'd better walt never aspire
and unmourned Arabs
the dying
you have to that just becauso one who
to make going were
a form oppenratice mention you are having
for unfit
middle-class ourselves.
stand in a queue or nul In country
Then of the crowds looks less extraor-yourself they look at you as if
It
the less WAS infants.
I want a stake in the future just for everything. dinary
it than
might.
clec. anybody much discriminatory bomb at Bikini. Now
(Pardon me a moment while t war for a better associates Arabs with tents. But one you were a farm animal..
fought in the "In these it's the Russians in Berlin. They've as
and stifle 1721 elderson. associates them also with flocks to "What, now?" they say.
an absoluto godsend,
world. My wife endured its bemba po up
come clean through the drive-and they have none: with days? You must be mad." Then been
to the "Don't-have-a-
celling in a minute.) flelds to till-and there are none.
they turn away, with a sad shake of Russians,
nominees to enjoy the rewards. The Lebanese Government
the head and mutter something about baby-now" school of thoughts and privations. We want our own Her
'good as Napleon was 150 years ago. done all it can already. Who accepts cannon fodder. them- now? I, cald the United
STAKE IN FUTURE Nations, doubtfully, and voted £1
International million from the
MOODNESS" knows what Children's Fund.
there will be next year. from Mars, perhaps, or meazles,
The cynics can be very plausible My wife and I were married a in their arguments, particularly month before the war started, and
Or go further back sill, ang were told then we'd be lunatics to when it comes to the financial side found a family with Hitler Invading They point out how much cheaper
and easier things were
consider our more remote ancestors. I was born?" asked the girl. right and left.
"Oh, well, that was different.” parents and grandparents.
I can never read about the Stone "that'
true. But it doesn't "Age without being amazed that the said the mother, "I was only 19
myself, but everything I am
It may be happy to pay
survived.
more • bo. get these times back. If you listen Imagine having a baby in those much easier, then." Ignored their advice, and no eno mean that by walling you will ever human rate ever
What could has put us in Colney Hatch yet.
than trying to keep it "Such as what?" persisted All through the war people went to that lino of argument you may days
cavo warm in a wor
with icy girl wark on saying the same thing if we go on waiting so long that one day harrowing were about to be separated they you'll find it is too late.
winds from the glaciers whistling Well said the mother, think pointed out that a wife shouldn'
and raw own, doctor. have a child without her husband That's how my wife and I reason, round the floor? And nothing to ing hard, you could choose your We have more money, foed it. on but roots
that heartening thing is around to look after her. It we were anyway. together they said, "Enjoy life than bafore the war, but the things ment.
do than as that girl's mother does. you can and don't burden wo get for it are far fewer, But But they didn't say, "Let's have more people seem to belleve as I
no kids till the Bronze Age." The weeks go on and the weather while
then, so they are for, everybody, Eats colder UNO's relief head, Sir yourself."
the
The Security Council and Political Committee, who have duff ed and groped and blundered all the way through the Palestino morass, xaw the Third Committee the "Humanities Group"-move with little more realizmi.
WINTER'S BLAST WHO else? Not I, said the United States, though I will Approve any private contributions. I, sald Great Britain, and offered a million, a 10s, there in each refugee,
The petrol companies, Churches, handed neighbour Sintes, have all over something money, grain, blan- kets. A
we
bogey Men
for our
Supposing everybody let them- that they scives be convinced couldn't afford one child, let alone ancestors several? Supposing our
so? Looking back on it had done the nineteenth century sceras an ego of spaciousness now, but I don't moments when doubt there were disaster seemed near."
i
KNOW a girl of 19 who married the other day, and the ber before the wedding night mother told her the 1948 facts of life, ie, that she ought to walt be- fore having a baby.
"And how old were you when
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