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...barricaded Jerusalem last week a Briton, about to move into a requisitioned Jewish house, found a laconic note left for him: "My house-your castle." It was a pithy oversimplification of the whole Palestine issue. Last week Britain, unable to work out a division of Palestine's living space between Arabs and Jews, was ready to quit her position as castellan, try to get the United Nations to take over...
...with the British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...
...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
...JERUSALEM, February 10 A British military court sentenced three suspected members of lrgun Zvai Legion to the gallows today shortly after official Palestine Jewry formally rejected a British request to cooperate with the police and military in combatting terrorism...
Next morning, while armored cars roamed Jerusalem streets, the terrorists struck again. While a courtroom crowd watched, another gang of two women and eight men forced Judge Ralph Windham, still in his wig and gown, from his Tel Aviv district court bench...