Word: arabization
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...British Public Information Office, short on manpower, tries to give reasonably accurate handouts. But its sources often turn out to be the uncorroborated word of an Arab (or Jewish) constable of the Palestine Police...
...Confusion. So most correspondents 1) hang around the British P.I.O. for handouts, and pick the brains of Arab and Jewish newsmen in the bar; 2) attend the daily Jewish Agency press conference in Ben Yehuda Street; 3) pump their Jewish and Arab stringers and contacts. The only way of getting any accurate picture is to go out yourself, and this is getting harder...
...This," said one disgusted A.P. photographer, "is the damnedest war I ever saw. It's all front-with no back and no sides to it." Sometimes a road may be quite peaceful; the next moment it may be swept with gunfire. Even with Arab, Jewish and British press cards, it is a problem to get people on the spot to accept you. In the Arab quarter of the old city, for example, unless you have an armed escort from the Arabs' national headquarters, you might be fired on, attacked by a crowd as a Jewish spy, or arrested...
...trying to get the place declared a neutral international zone-sort of hallowed ground like the Holy Sepulchre. The trouble is that it stands on a hill which dominates the old city and the road to Hebron. And it has a tower 176 ft. high-ideal for snipers. Both Arab and Jewish authorities have listened politely to a committee of worried pressmen. But the answer has amounted to this: O.K. in principle, but we're afraid we can't guarantee that some of our people won't attack the place on their own. So there is every...
...back as February, Palestine's famed Hebrew-speaking Habimah players had announced a six-week visit to Broadway. The sets and costumes were shipped well ahead; but when the company set out six days before the opening, they found Lydda airport in Arab hands and had to be secretly air-ferried to Athens. From there, in dribs & drabs, and by divergent routes, they reached New York...