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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1954.

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London Express Service

JAMES CAMERON, Reporting From That Unbelievable Land Called Israel, Says

HOPE GROWS GREEN

Now it begins to steam.

or

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I live in an hotel that is something straight out of Japanego Jew,

he people

suid: Luna Park; every day the claimed (and surely no succeed because Jewish planeloads from 0.8. body," said my Israeli frleud but . . .` invade it for the festival, the very seriously, "would suy lovely rustle of greenbacks, he was a Japanese Jew if li the in-gathering of the weren't.") opulent. Upon my soul, E feel

more pressure-cooked

than

eye-

army

that has

B

so in-

TEL AVIV. Israelis from the Balkan I have been through it what urgent pride is every master juggler of the pound sessed by R

chauvinism NE thing they always ghettos and the Souks of again, from the gritty Negev advance explained. with and the prulah -- muke no we neither Uke nor want? tell you in Israel: Yemen. from Oxford and to the postel hills of the what insistence demonstra attempt to conceal the diffi- But the fact is that there the

about its Harvard and Kurdistan and Lotanese border. over the ted every acre of progress.

culties of Israel either from are in ofTect no non-mili- being mot a melting Brooklyn and Moscow and ronde I knew live years ago

the nation or the world.

Jary people in Israel. Everything in the Black Jews among the stones and barren pot, but a pressure coker. Golders Girven.

confirme and brown Jews, platinum fields, the empty earth and sight

the basic The real difference be-

Men and women alike blonde Jews and Nordic the desperately congested psychological schism that tween Israel today and five are conscripted: after their dows. In the Negev, even a immigrant cumps, when divides Isrud from

their years ago is the realisation service they remain on call "We shall 40,000,000 hostile neighbours that Jows are up against as in an

more effectively we must,

the many problems in the Pro- national integration hopeless frontier the mised Land ઘર in the tricate and detailed it could sophistication and urgency Diaspora, the outer world. be mobilised more quick- of the Jews and the historic

perhaps tham any Now the Jews, who have resentful traditionalism of the

hun- mutually pressure-cooked their antipathetic qualities that dred ingredients into some make each so infuriating to sort of national stew, have the other and which now at the same time Bortedl

the head of it al look very like bringing themselves out into much

The Chief of Staff, them at each other's throats, the same differences that

exist in less scriptural lands Moshe Dayan, who lost an that is to say, people who eve fighting with the Bri- have too much and people fish in Syria, still in who have too little, people thirties, His optimism is

'the

wrong kind of qualified with that Inevit WB of terms, manners and the right kind able final word, "all knew

farms Beer- of accent. Jews and Jews, want is to keep our

at work, our businesses

than they.

Today

brought three

ALL SORTS

What makes people think

should

120

Now they show you the crops and the vineyards, the housing estates and the new factories, and they SKY: "We are succeeding because we had to, but

callers in a row. An Ameri- that Israelites

These tive

have years can Jew who wanted to come consistent? There are people changed the face of the here so badly he flew him-

work 15 hours every country so manifestly that who self across the Atlantic in

A German, day, and rubbinical zealots it looks, indeed, like its own a baby plane. Jew who wanted to get out with side curls and kaftans so orthodox they won't even strike a match after Friday

No badly he was even pre- pared to go hume.

And that genial occentric, Britain's unrequited export,

sundown.

There are men in factories

Tour Mr Sydney Stanley, who for assembling cars who Home reason has not yet years ago hul never seen a made himself President. wheel. Everything happens here,

There are moments when Outside, Tel Aviv seethes, you know this feverish land What makes people think is dounted, and others when they can recognise Jews by you know that such a place appearance!

can never fail,

FOR

Arabs-the

NO SECRET

Some of the Here and there they live with propaganda.

themselves all actual roade

some sort were new when the old one Beersheba-1 ran where it could be com manded by a battery from the other side.

Ty

other.

FINAL WORD

AI

his

sheba as a bizarre sort of wild west Israel pioneering larael has produced its going without interference. town surrounded by Bedouin own minorities, even a sort But.... canips, on the edge of the of racism. The cocky native. Such considerations" are

born desert.

Sabras, the German Nevertheless, the fields the the tedious and expensive

Yeckes, illiterate Yemenites, are full of growth. expression of the state of

Today it is a mass of cultivated Viennese, volatile crops ure being gathered, nonsensical sprouting and vicious

factories and Rumanians,

and the tyres and textiles suburbs with

and the fertilisers are be- half-peace in which Israel spreading

There blos robed Bedouin padding their expected

che broad- ing produced; water is flow- is

For the rest it grows camels aloofly from their minded cosmopolites: some ing where it never did be- som. before your eyes-and with black tents to the bus stop. of their best friends are fore.

The desert itself has re Christians. treated before the vust waterpipe from the North.

to

THE NEW PEARLERS

FIT IN WELL

By SEFTON DELMER

Darwin. Weils will stop the Japs getting exactly the the frigate Conway with any funny stuff.

damine it was a pretty tough assignment--she was

#1

the

the

Kaine time Jap feet was sighted.

Air-lift

Nomikos and his men

are

And all around, the ap- prehension, sometimes only The other week Home half-felt. Fear of the next latter-day fishermen on the Arab attack, of the next Sea of Galilee were fired on, hot-headed Jewish reprisal, and another wave of bitter- and impatience with # neka rolled over Jordan, ridiculous situation that Everyone talks of pence; could surely be touched off there is no peace.

Yet things get done, as the things develop, the shoe-

into warfare by some care- less or mischievous impulse. they And last, why,

should

wethe

string economy is stretched ask, to breaking point and never non-military people, breaks. The top economists xious only to make of Israel-like David Horo- living in goodness knows dowitz, a

friend of Cripps, what difficulties be

un-

well-better than the reliable half-castes and Polyne- sians diving from Australian pearlors today-then all the re- maining

of sponge-fishers hing Calymnos, with their wives and children, will be flown out 10 Darwin.

For the Japs, needless to say. are refusing to recognise Australian right to claim preparing to sail from Dar- Continental Shelf-us the reel win to meet an "invading"

going out from the mainlund fleet of 25 Japanese pearling are celled-us Australian terri- luggers.

tory. They have only reluc- Lantly agreed to accept Imita- tions until the ruling of The Two men had arranged Hague International Court for Condamine to sail been obtained. Darwin's Harbourmaster Wells, fair-haired, BIX. footer with the coolest, most summing-up eyes I've seen in a long while; and Commander Arnold Green of the Australian Navy,

The Japs had just arrived in Australian waters and ware about to start' diving for oyster shells, holding highly valuable mother-of-pearl. The equivalent

of £700 in dollers is what a ton

Secret weapon runs Japanese pearling fleet, netting about belleve they will

which is provided with Ugger ready

And from the determined way ↑ saw Nomikos and hir men getting their

succeed In founding a 110W Greck-Australian pearling

equipment infinitely superior to that of the Australian Juggers, dustry.

by is reported to be financed an American Arm,

Thà

in-

Newell Rogers Reporting America

an-

L

ob-

3-D RADAR NOW FOR PLANES

Greck community in H

Darwin has acquired building

out

200-dollar

New York. THE TV networks are having

taka

■TUSH-HUSH invention- lo

three-dimensional And Australions in Darwin lats on which a now Calymnos radar. Since it is for the feel that even if The Hague is to be built by sponge-divers armed forcea all details decision recognises Australian in between Joumeys.

are secret. rights, there is every prospect

But the company

which

that the Canberra Government With pride the Greeks' local of this pearl shell fetches in will be under pressure to let the leader, Michael Nicholas, point- New York. Lost year, when Japa

go on taking the lion's ed out to me an Orthodox Greek developed it says it spells the Japs come pearling in Aus- share of casily exhausted church they were building in safer flying. tralian waters for the first time Australian shell bods, since the war they cleared more than 900 tons.

brought in less than 100 tons.

So when I flow in from Sydney I found them all agog to - Australian- themselves strengthen the Austrailan pearl- ing teams and make n fight of it against the Japs, in the hope that if they do well they will get more Government support.

Tough..

A

HONDAMINE was setting off

the centre of Darwin.

They'll fit in

Ucences as firearms dealers. It Is the only way they can get sub-machine guns for their crime shows,

URLY-HAIRED Colonel Jos Foss, who had shot down 20 Japanese Zeros by 1943, has won his first polllical fight.

He beat Lieutenant-Governor

A POLITE, after-you-my-dur Rex Terry for the Republican

Ja

aitflude

Hollywood nomination to be Govenor of "kiss of death," says "British South Dakoin. Ho must still actress Deborah Kerr.

boat rancher Ed Martin, the

**I learned a bitter lesson," Democratic nominee, in a final she goes on. "Even so, I didn't election.

shove and ruth-

the have enough

But South Dakota is #rockribbed Republican."

HAVE no qualms about these immigrants from Greece, for they fit in well with Australians of

of old

British mock. Lessness to use my laws, and. SALE of the Government's 27 Their chief support in this If they can help to see that get the things 1 needed.”

wartime synthetic rubber

is a secret weapon. I met Austraile exploit the wealth of TARLEM REDWINGS, in a works is in the bidding stage, to contact the Japancas feat him too --- 0 grizzled little, these mother-of-pearl beds

Jap to make sure. It keeps strictly to Greek named Namikor Fratrikon, hemolt, repols: this latest Jer nasty sports car, shot up a with 74 bids from 34 companies, the areas agreed between the. He is No

I of a trial crew of invasion, and sets up a process rival gang of youths, the Bronx 60 far, Australian and Jóp Govern Greek spongo-divers from the ing industry and button factories Baldies, in a row that began knastal whất - Móts not tako out Dedocanose isisod of Calymnos, wall of which is come over a girl. more shell than, is authorised,

tamplatod they will have free sing' youth, Ho and the paths brew, come conzlinked valuably, to the wounded. and 10-year-old tiss *You ↑ prakty, doughi, Chelgus, plete with two-rölher divors, prosperity, and, advancement of semeer) Montuanes

zrient. But I feel confidant that, tendere, and anlorn had augtvek "whili

king: Austen, Pecho, lagi 250 things to ale melih the onld sye of Harbourmaster by ale frus Akana. “at almost

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