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Alexei's other activities in behalf of Holy Communist Russia include close contacts through the Middle East. Last summer he made a state visit to his fellow Patriarchs of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch. Thus Stalin, who is already playing footie with the Muslems of the Middle East, has also got a means of influencing the Levantine Orthodox Christians...
...Christmas Day there was peace, if not good will, among men of the Holy Land. Then, two nights after Christmas, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Aviv felt the shudder of bombs...
...Jerusalem the target was the central police building. Amid a rat-tat-tat of diversionary Tommy-gun fire, terrorists hurled bombs through a window. A whole section of the building collapsed in the explosion. A similar, simultaneous assault was made on the Jaffa police station. In Tel Aviv one objective was the Royal Engineers' Armory. Terrorists and troops (both sides wearing British uniforms and steel helmets) fought a swift, confused battle in the dark. In the three attacks at least ten were killed and 13 wounded. The two senior police officers of Palestine barely escaped with their lives...
British troops patrolled the streets in armored cars, carried out the biggest mass arrest (approx. 2,700) in Palestine's troubled history. In the Bezalel section of Jerusalem every male under 60 was rounded up. The Eden Hotel, the city's second largest, was emptied of its guests. Jails and compounds bulged with Jews, most of whom were later released...
...thought about at the time: a small red flame . . . relit before the . . . doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones...