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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
...Jerusalem echoed with the shattering thud of mines and the staccato gibberish of machine-gun fire, the overwhelming majority of Palestine's 600,000 Jews last week turned definitely and bitterly against the terrorism of Zionist extremists. They had gone...
With this head start, the Congress in Basel might well find a means to end the nightly warfare in Jerusalem. If they did not, Palestine in 1947 would surely be, as one Jerusalem newspaper called it last week, "no refuge for the wanderer...
After the tour in Germany, Friedrich said he planned to deliver a series of lectures at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and another set in Cairo. These projects, he added, are only tentative, since governmental work may keep him through the appointed time...
This drumhead interpretation of policy came only a few hours after another British officer, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker, left Jerusalem on a "transfer" home. Barker, after the King David Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...