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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948.

Thunder breaks up Ben Hecht's 'Holiday'

happened in Ireland in 1922. Scarcely had the British marched out of Dublin Castle for good when, on April 13, Irish Irregulars seized the Four Courts in the heart of Dublin and challenged the new Free State. A few weeks ago

the last British troops sailed from Palestine, but already, on Tel-Aviv beach, Jew had fought Jow. A ship filled with Jewish extremists and munitions had broken the truce, defied the infant State, and drawn the fire of Isrne).·

The Israel Government, recognised by U.S.A. and Russia, Issued this communique-

"It came to the knowledge of the. “A military unit of the Israel army Israel army command that a ship. proceeded to the point and a staval carrying arms for Irgun was cx- craft approached the ship. Members pected aliortly. The provisional of Irgun concentrated in the neigh- Government regards the bringing in bourhood... refused to obey the of arms by separate groups, 2x- command of the State and armed pecially during the truce, as a viola- action against them tc48 ordered. tion of Israel's obligations.

"When the ship neared the coast the Government ordered the fract army to prevent the unloading of arns, by armed force if necessary.

"The Government will not allow the great effort of the Jewish people to build up its independence in the midst of bloodshed and war to hal sabotaged by a base attack from the Inside,"

extremists taken

Afler the battle, among the hundred or more Prisoner by their brother Jews WAS Peter Bergoon. Bergson Was A friend of Ben Hecht, noled for saying that every time a Britlah #oldler was killed he made a little holiday in his heart. Bergson was head of the Hebrew Liberation Committee In New York. Ils detention has caused an almost hysterical outburst among his followers.

From Evelyn Webber

New York

In

THE arrest of Peter Bergson year had a strong minority-walling has staggered the Hecht around sporting buttons reading "1 Support Irgun"-a resolution has in New York. been passed this year strongly con- organisation "We don't know what to toll demning them. our members when this leaks out," a spokesman at the office of the American League told

me.

2CCKET CARTOON OSAERT, LANCASTER

"bet you' it's all part of some "frightfully clever publicity ampaign designed to' encourage "uta to share our gas-firea with the neighbours or

Romething

C.V.R. Thompson

Free Men Or. ?

Night beat in Berlin with the Russians

N

by ETHEL MANNIN

my

last night in done on skewers, and the panen Berlin, just before the things called blini..

pancako

currency crisis, I decided A small decanter of vodka was to mooch around a little in placed on the table. The prices on

the menu were given in dollars, the Russian sector.

+ να λιμά

ad just finished the second course when a

Darty of Russian officers entered.

The orhestra' promptly ceased to play and followed the officers up the stairs to the banqueting room

My colleaguesa colonel and his wife-suggested that the Adlon Hotel would be as good a starting point as 'any, BO WO drove there first, through a wilderness of hollow houses to the unrecognisable rubble heap of what was once the fine boulevard of the Unter den Linden.

When we got tired of waiting in the deep gloom which now pervaded the restaurant the colonel went to find our waiter,

Ho was very apologetic, but counselled un not to wait longer; the chef was Russian, ho sald, and The Adlon was. onco to Berlin would not cook any more for the what the Savoy Hotel is to London. restaurant now that the Red Army It was huge, imposing, cosmopolitan. cilicers had arrived, but only for Now it is a sheil, but a small part them; we would do better to pay of it has been repaired, and there and go....

in is a

Search for car a small, narrow dining-room, NEW YORK. which Ruslans sit in a deep silence

·

AMERICA, which came into drinking bedrooms for Russians

being through the Govern-are a few bed-rooms for Russians we had to search for the car we had

ment being overthrown by violence, finds itself committed today to decide whether or not Americans with similar views shall be allowed to stay free

men..

are

only.

We followed his advice. Outside

ordered to come for us at ten,

n'clock. 'Being watchod'

The gloom in this restaurant bar is so oppressive that it is unnerving.

When we found the driver he Baid that he had been "hiding round

You get the feeling of being the corner,"

He had got there promptly at ten watched and of every word you say, in however low a voice, being as instructed, but he didn't like listened to for use in possible waiting about in the Russian sector.

he said... ultimate evidence against you.

when

and deoxy-

WAN

The courts have often ruled that aliens who are Communists, and

. We drove back to the British sector therefore pledged to the veter There was a deep silence

the present American Govern-

we entered the room, and all the and decided to have a look at a ment, shall not have that privilege time we sat there drinking a beer German night Club.

But on August 23 a mass trial which reminded me of the vinegary Hero all was upholstered and will open in New York to decide if stuff I drank in Moscow in 1935. plush and beflowered Letters sent out recently by Ben American citizens who are Commu- and a deep and watching silence genated. Here are you could eat Hecht, co-chairman of the league, nista must forswear their doctrines when we finally made our escape and drink all you wanted, but you

Juil. or go to have contained a dollar bill which

paid in marks. for that was how it felt, Hecht invited sympathisers to return

American

whipping

The popers

A jaded-looking German porter

small danco Door together with their own dollar bills.up atmosphere for the trial. The

crowded. "At the moment we are using re-

But all he has been receiving six defendants arrested July 21 agreed to show us round.

He took us up staira that had Here cat and dance and drink the ports put out by Walter Winchell have been letters containing no and freed on bail the next day are obviously at one time been the Berliners who can afford to live and others that Bergson may have money from donors, who explained getting the billing of master minds backstairs used by the hotel staff, on the black market among the been shot. It's good for stimulating they have kept his dollar and sent in a Hitchcock film. funds (which have reached more it to Haganah (the official Palestine Ona newspaper even dragged in along a carpoted corridor, and late ruins of what is surely the most

the unrepaired ruin.

vicious and corrupt city in Europe the customary beautiful blonde-an In the courtyard below,

under today. unnamed heroine who suddenly rusted and twisted girders, stood

The girls in the night club don't The league meetings and concerts decided she

her country

there at the time of the blitz. Since this started our membership pickets. The most recent was tho and turned Stalo's evidence,

Across the courtyard a bath-room Although their has fallen from 58,360 last year to lasco at New York's plushy Waldorf-

sorry-looking

visible through on was nakedly published 00,000 this year. League members Actorla, when of four famous stars police photographs, paid 30s, a year to belong. In hard- scheduled

incredible,

ing forlornly on a rail ship cases we have reduced this to turn up.

such allegations seem

that I have been watching the frenzied there are allegations We can't any more. We are 59.

theso AT 2.30, 5.15, getting too many cancellations. efforts of league officials to avert men, all leaders of America's Com- People are getting panicky. Hun- disaster. In one, office the other day munist Party, had made fantastic

a vice-president was hurriedly com- plans. dreds have written in."

Nor is this the last of the troubles posing a despatch purporting to come of the American League for a Free from Palestine. Palestine.

kept saying.

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"And we certainly need them now, are being attended by pickets, Jewish time "beld no longer con- the cars which had been standing, walk the Kurfurstendamm-which

The last newspaper in New York which was friendly to their ad❤ vertisements the pro-Zionist New York Post, which accepted them at time has refused to print

£125 a any more.

At a Zionist convention at Pitts- burg, where. Irgun supporters last

From

the

every night swarms with women of ail ages--they don't need to; there is more money here, and all the

more valuable than money.

to appear three did not every American front page, make ripped-open wall, a towel still hang things which in Germany today aro

now long can we hold out," he

One of them-at a given signal they were to destroy all New York

and most vital cities.

Just dosolate:

In this night club.peoplo actually smoke their cigarettes-with plenty more where those came from Cat six marks apiece at that time) they can afford to.

The clientele appears to vary from

It was difficult to plece together the Adlon as one had remembered it.

This was no remembered place, and Los Angeles, America's largest but merely the abomination of de the bourgcols to the vicious, with a...

of the long-haired luxury bad sprinkling solation, where once In another, three girls were

"artistic." been. miserably staring at the results of a MR. MARSHALL has contradicted

A woman comes round hawking: We drove further into the sector street collection they had made the M. M Announcement by of collecting officinla

his and came to a dead end where the bunches of long-stemmed pink roses. day before.

that subversive foreign Kommandaturu wa barbed-wired At midnight the band packs up and boxes lay opened on the table and agents were entering the U. S. aa oft-tangible expresalen of the iron the lights dim, but no one goes the floor.

UNO employees, He said he knew curtain at last, it seemed. Total yield: £24 10s.

of no such case.

Everyone leaving and entering WHILE ZIONIST boycotters made the "cantonment" showed a pass to

the sentry at the barrier, mass "Boycott

While we stood there a bare- Britain"-meeting, their Broadway

Dozens

(угодву

fish in this corner of London Bent in Palestine" he said. percent down on the

to me.

WASHINGTON

to

*

hit on

tho

1

hoo.

From somewhere emerges a man

with an accordion, going from table to tablo as he squeezes out music.

The "Manhattan" cocktails are the same colour as the synthetic. red fruit juice they sell at the cafes. all over Germany, and they faste ilko distilled fire.

A half-smile

We

ก

stolid

John Deane Potter Ws for a

allles began boycotting "English headed man in a blue overall camo In London

muffins," an American baker's pro-walking along briskly, a Russian

soldier close at his heels. duct only slighly similar to the real

down watched them We of thing.

length of the street; at one point TN the kosher cafes of White- Mandate with some

their own. chapel there

WHAT Sir Stafford Cripps calis the soldier said something to the are high Abraham Abrahams

"that's my disinflation is hitting America's man so narrowly ahead of him, at words in English and Yiddish. name I haven't changed

more entertainments... Cinemas say their which the man turned and the

We decide to leave them alone, was even more Jews eating a dish of gefilte MacTavish yet"

particularly as business is down soven to 12 percent soldier followed him into the bar- when I spoke to him.

have been that Was 20 racks... have set up a totalitarian on last year, and

The sight depressed us and we drinking vodka, earlier war years.

At the next tablo a synthetic which is in some ways stranger than Soho, are falling out "It is there against the wishes of Gramophone records sales are off 35 went back to the car and drove

blonde young woman' with a sun- to the Intourist Restaurant. among themselves.

the people. The ship that was fired only one real

This restaurant, in the heart of ton make-up lavishly applied t

to on contained 10 percent. Irgun men And three miles away," near the and 80 percent. of my party, the Broadway, and most of the other one of the poorest districts' in Ber making heavy. Inve

takes

voluta-sterling, looking man who wears tweed only British Museum

for lin. in Bloomsbury, Revisionist group,

shows are selling two tickets

Swedish money, or Swiss jacket and smokes a. pipe.. dollars, the oMcial

the spokesman of

keep going.

the "We believe in all Palestine for the price of ono

At the same table sits a Bored- Jewish

la Agency for Palestine

We The only entertainment Industry and has an announcement In

window, in plain looking young man who koke strong in his choice of words the Jews, without partition.

middle of its with Irgun, blthough which is booming is television.

English in block letters-COME IN American cigarettes and occasionally "Why

be squeamish?" he said sympathise

EAT ALL YOU COLUMNIST | AND

WANT. glances at his watch and then looks "We are in the middle of we have no official connection,"

Mr. Abrahams paced up and W Drew Pearson, who thought up WHAT YOU CAN'T EAT. YOU across to the young woman. a serious situation, and every effort

represent the room. "We

Once sho gives him was being made to keep the truce. down

a friendship train to collect Ameri- CAN TAKE AWAY. NO CARRING

France and| CHARGE___ [the spelling is theirs smile and a wink, and can food gifts for You must have disciplino in war, about 30 percent. of the people in as the British people did in their Palestine. Yet we have no velce in Italy, suggests friendship Super-DELIVERY FREE

operations with the tweed-clad, one, Government becauso war with Hitler. If certain diver the Palestine

Forts for Russia.

Somo gaunt-faced Germans stood whose pipe goes out from time to have tve

never been

Д given sionist groups insist on bringing in

Under his plan the B20s now "Aired on

In looking morosely at the array of time under the strain... arms and men ready to resist the chance. The reason they

East Anglia would be loaded with food so generously displayed in the they were estabished Government they must that ship was because.

Into the 500,000 balloons.

These would be window. "Coms in and eat all you pay the penalty, even at the cost afraid of people coming

Mouse want"—if you can pay for it. with

political Alled with sweets, Mickey country

different of their lives."

messages of to fight to the watches, soup, and

In the bar you can buy large bars losewell, friendship. And the balloons would of chocolate for 2s.

bo dropped so they would float into You can also buy inferior plastic is most Russian territory.

dolls and various specimens of Rus- in Wigmore Street very

In the Metropole angry Indeed, ils name is Abraham Interested in all these arguments is WASHINGTON

discovered sian handcraft, is 50-year-old Louis Hersh.

WAX resent-day overca Hotel in Moscow. Abrahams. He is British. Ho

In an office in Whitechapel Road 22,000 a year does not mean much. the editor of the 8,000 circulation,

with a picture of Irgun-sympathising Jewish Standard. E. (decorated.

Con- Mr Abrahams writes:--

Princess Elizabeth and an advertise Top-flight Government jobs at that "The

hands ...of 'the

ment for a bank in Tel-Aviv), Ar salary are going begging. Palestine Hersh writes # weekly political Bress may be asked to vote a 50 Government are, stained with the article in the Jewish Timer, the percent rise for those jobs blood of Jewish men who came from the four corners of the earth 25,000-circulation Yiddish daily.

But Mr. Hersh himself is keep--FILOT JOHN DIEGAN has The rest of the company was clear

set out from Denver to hikely Russian. to Oght for Israel They are re- ing out of the squabbles:

A band was pouring forth a kind placing the tyranny of the

shooting was mistake,' ho says, across America. During his journey

ho will try to raise funds to rebuild of wild gipsy music, yet the atmos- "I'm certain they did not mean

the French town of Royan which,phere remained as gloomy as in the to kill those men."

His article in the week's Jewish as a member of the 8th Air Force, Adlon bar.

The helped to bomb. Times dealt wit-Berlin.:

That is the sort of remark that opinions. We want

a mild-mannered, middle bitter end, and if we nged Jow sitting In a booklined we lose, that's all."

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In the restaurant a couple of Americans sat spending dollars, in company with some German girls,

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The colonel, who was a Laison officer in Berlin, says she is well- known in the Berlin night world.

She gives him a half-smile so he glances across at her. The young man slides a yawn.

There are no hungry here.

Germans

Here is the minority which in every country always survives any catastrophe-which lives well in the midst of farmine, and has more than enough in the midst of starvation...:

The hungry Germans are outside on the boulevard. Hungrier still are the Germans you do not seo, living out their despairing Lives in over- crowded rooms in bombed houses;

But the black marketeers cat, drink, dance, and are merry, for We ordered caviare and kidneys tomorrow--who knows?

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