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DEtROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Bnai Brith Husband-Wife Team

thousand troops to police Pales-
tine, it succeeded not in stamp-
ing out Jewish resistance but
only in complicating its task and
making the British ludicrous in
the eyes of their Arab friends.
The Arab world must have
looked with unrestrained glee at
the absurd spectacle of a di-
vision of troops, complete with
tanks and field artillery, attack-
ing fifteen thousand strong
against a colony of thre hun-
dred men, women and children.
No wonder the rumor was rife
among the Arabs that the Jew-
ish colonists had secretly ob
tained two atomic bombs to be
held in reserve for dire emer-
gencies!
I have often wondered about
Operator Zayin. Is he still
alive? Is he still one of the
strong links in the chain of
hope to Palestine? Sometimes
Shown above are Judge and Mrs. Robert L. Aronson of
a wind of fancy strikes me,
St. Louis who attained the unique distinction of becoming the
and I imagine that the thin,
lit man and wife presidential team in the history of Bnai
soft-spoken young man who sat
1th. Judge Aronson was elected to serve as president of
with me in the Cafe Mont-
District Grand Lodge No. 2, and Mrs. Aronson was named
martre had, in his inimitable
to head District 2 Women.
way, managed to add an atomic
bomb to his vast baggage.
One thing will always remain
with me: The sentence the
stranger uttered at our first
meeting:
"I want you to meet a differ-
ent kind of Jew . .. one who
asks for nothing . . . but a
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marched on.
Jew who has something precious
American chaplains knew the to give you. . . ."
CHAPLAINS AND THEIR as- risks they were taking. The
sistants discovered the world of Articles of War—Bible and Con-
European intrigue in their stitution of the U.S. Army—con- A HAPPY NEW YEAR
strange adventure. Nations tain enough rules to send even
To All Our Friends
ostensibly friendly to Great the average officer to Leaven-
Britain were not only willing to worth for 99 years. But co-
cooperate with the underground operation with the underground
—they were delighted at the continued. Word came to a chap-
HI GRADE SYRUP
chance to outwit the colonial lain's office that two high-rank-
authorities. By adding to Brit- ing Haganah leaders had been
ain's discomfiture, they en- caught-dressed in the uniform
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hanced their own prestige!
of British naval officers—and
TY. 4-2782
Scotch is rarely mentioned in were imprisoned by the British
the annals of international di- in a village near the Mediter-
plomacy, but it is a medium of ranean.
exchange that is universally un-
A message came through from
derstood. Chaplains learned to Palestine: The long arm of the MISS PAULUS SAYS
have deep vespect for its per- Haganah would reach out and
suasive powrs. Many a ship to free them. But the competent ROSII HASHONAH
Palestine was launched by a British would then set up a drag- GREETINGS TO ALL
bottle from the Highlands.
net from which it would be vir-
European governments were tually impossible to escape. The
PAULUS
asked to cooperate with Britain plans had to be careful and
in preventing the exodus from daring.
HAIRI ESSING
Europe. Publicly they an-
The hour was set; the place
nounced their sympathy with was set. A chaplain started on
their harrassed ally; privately a leisurely drive along the high-
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they aided the Jews to escape.
way, while two men lay hiding
TO.
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Once a chaplain was asked to in a ditch at the road's edge.
send a doctor to see a South
At exactly 5:03 a.m., the car
American consul. The worthy stopped and two men scrambled
gentleman was too ill even to inside. Within a few days, the
sit up; certainly he was in no leaders of the Haganah were ROSII HASHONAH
condition to sign 2000 visas (at on the high seas, returning to GREETINGS TO ALL
80 cents per visa!). A medical their post in Palestine.
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officer was dispatched promptly;
the consul sat up; and the cer- SNARL GETS WORSE
tificates that meant life to two
VARKLE IRON
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE has
thousand Jews were duly signed. its hands full tracking down the
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members of the Haganah. Men
LIKE THE EXODUS
moving about in the varied uni-
t
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, forms of the British empire, men
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BUNERT
one of the best in Europe, knew springing up out of nowhere in
Roseville, Michigan
all shenanigans. They sent out Bedouin garb, cannot be de-
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tected
readily.
military police, the water's edge
When
the
colonial
administra
was guarded—but somehow the
seas divided and the Israelites tion sent an additional hunreci

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