September 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
PRELUDE TO A
JEWISH ARMY
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Editor's Note:—Recent London
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conversations between Zionist
leaders and the Churchill Cab-
inet regarding the formation of
a Jewish Army have been re-
sumed. If and when formed,
the Jewish Army will find in
the Palestinian military units,
which have already won their
laurels in the Libyan, Greek
and Crete campaigns, a splen-
did nucleus on which to build.
The a u t h o r, who visited
"Training Town somewhere in
Palestine", vividly describes
this Jewish Voluntary Force.
JERUSALEM.—One who had
known the place for years as
part of a placid, undulating
stretch of Palestinian country-
side; had seen the spread of
new cultivation, and applauded
the enterprise that was turning
this empty tract into the homes
of men. Then, in . less time than
it takes a sapling to strike firm
root, the void beyond the edge
of the town blossomed into can-
tonments and tents. Like a
flood the troops submerged the
place. Parade-grounds were
crowded with them; rises and
sky-lines were furred with them,
and roads and paths heaved and
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Fifty-seven hundred years of recorded history should
serve to sustain members of the Jewish faith in the
terrible hours of adversity through which they are now
passing.
In that time, there have been other periods in which
the future looked dark. Those days gave way to better
times and so will these, for the struggle for religious
liberty and tolerance is neither to be abandoned or lost.
JESSE JONES
rippled like bicycle-chains with
blocks of men on the move.
There wac a mile of sergeants
and instructors, varied by com-
pany officers, all at work on
the material under their hands.
They grunted, barked, yapped,
expostulated, and, in rare cases,
purred as the lines broke and
formed and wheeled over the
rolling plain. When companies
numbered off, one could hear
the tone and accent of half the
countries of the Empire and,
among them, accents that were
born in no known country of
the Empire. It was their own-
ers I had come to see, the Pal-
estinian units of the British
Army of the Middle East.
The English military police-
man I approached knew all about
the Palestinians.
"My experience is that you'll
find some of them almost every-
where in the camp," he said.
"There's one company in the
Buffs being instructed just over
there."
.As- we strolled over a hillock,
the voice of a sergeant in the
torment reserved for sergeants
training new recruits boomed
across to meet us.
"How many times have I told
you that you don't know nothing
about rifles? Before you came
'ere, you never saw a rifle. See?
An' if you did, forget it!" Teach-
er and taught ,glared at each
other like theologians in full de-
hate. In the four years of Arab
riots before the war, the recruit
had held 11 rifle, and used it,
during many a long night of
vigil. But he was beginning to
learn the ways of the army.
And his clouded look changed
to one of earnest concentration
as he re-took instruction in the
Use of a weapon he knew all
about.
"Some of .-stem are still inde-
pendent like," said the military
spokesman. "That's a civilian
weakness they'll get ovet before
their squad training is over."
"And otherwise?" I asked.
"They're good," he said. "Very
good," then half to himself :
"Quite different, though. Some-
thing like the Czechs, only more
cheerful."
I asked a leading question.
"Crime?" said he. "Military
crime? They don't know what
.crime is—that lot don't—none
of'ern." He mourned over them
like a benevolent old Satan look-
ing into a busy Eden. But,
"They'll learn," was his last
word, "Like their fir-,t, Pioneer
Corps that went to France."
In the training town that has
grown up, soldiers in the mak-
ing are learning many things.
And almost every branch has
its Palestinians. At the time of
writing, over 7,000 Jews and
some 1,500 Arabs have had or
are receiving their training here.
The infantry recruits, in squads
of 42, the others in larger or
smaller units, live and work
together for seven weeks. Well-
grounded then in essentials, they
are formed into companies for
further training. Some units
consist of Jews alone; others of
Jews and Arabs. Most of their
officers are British; a few, by
chance or design, British Jews.
But. in service or in training,
there are also nearly 40 Pales-
tinian Jewish officers. The bulk
of the Palestinian units have
been on active service for many
months. Some were in France,
and lived through or died—
at Dunkirk. There were Pales-
tinians in the forces that swept
irresistibly through Libya. Oth-
ers were a thousand miles to
the north with the British con-
tinents in Greece; and still oth-
ers a thousand miles to the
south, among the swamps and
gorges of Abyssinia. Those now
in training will follow, wherever
else the battle of the Middle East
unfolds.
Down a road of Training
Town, heralded by the half-
grumble, half-grunt of guns on
the move, came a line of big
guns, with that long-nosed air
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of detachment peculiar to the
breed. The gunners were Jews,
all except an officer and a ser-
geant. Some months before the
army had asked the Jewish
Agency for eighty men for im-
mediate artillery training and
had got this unit, all from the
Emek, in two days. Among. them
was 0 6-foot lad from Nir Dav-
id. I had seen him last ninny
months before. He was about
to leave then for South Africa
on a mission from his Zionist
Daily. Now, he mentioned, try-
ing to look unconcerned, he was
about to be transferred for train-
ing as an officer.
Away on a hilltop, a caravan
of camels stood petrified, like
silhouettes in stone, at the sight
of a line of tanks. • Joining the
watching camels, I found. another
patty of Palestinians among the
men of the tanks. Out of sight,
if . not out of hearing, where
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