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...official job, Major General John Hay Beith, C.B.E., M.C., is not too old to write. He is working on an Army-boy-meets-Army-girl play. He also finds time to be: an officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Governor of Guy's Hospital, president of the Dramatists' Club, one of the three finest toxophilists (bow-shots) in England, a member of the Royal Company of Archers. For the duration he is living in a tiny London flat. His swank Mayfair house, he explains, is inhabited by "40 American lady warriors...
...British Military Court in Jerusalem last week came Eliahu Sacharoff. The charge: illegal possession of a bullet. Legally he was allowed twelve. Thirteen were found. The sentence: seven years' imprisonment...
...British civilian magistrate in Jerusalem 48 hours later came an Arab. The charge: illegal possession of a rifle plus 86 bullets. The sentence: six months' imprisonment...
Jewish resentment soared. Every Jew in Palestine remembered last month's trial in Jerusalem of Taxi Driver Abraham Rachlin and Labor Leader Leib Sirkin. The charge: illegal possession of 300 stolen rifles and 105,000 rounds of ammunition. The sentence: seven years' imprisonment for Rachlin, ten for Sirkin...
Added Francis E. McMahon, Notre Dame professor of philosophy and head of the Catholic Association for International Peace: "As the Crusaders once stormed Jerusalem to rescue the Holy Land from the infidel, so American flyers bombed Rome to drive out the Fascists...