CAIRO TO DAMASCUS
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If You Are between 18 and 28!
It You Want a Man's Job
It You Want to Earn £20 a Month and All Found
Get into a Crack Force—The PALESTINE POLICE FORCE!
This was only four months before the British mandate over
Palestine was to end and Palestine was to be partitioned between Arab and Jew according to the United Nations decision. Why, then, were the British continuing to recruit Palestinian police?
"You will see those all over London," someone behind me
said.
I recognized an English couple who had been fellow passengers on the plane that brought me from New York to London.
"Well," I said, greeting them, "I never expected to find
London as run-down as this."
"Oh, everything's been leveled off—buildings as well as society," the man said. "The war and what's happened since
have driven us to accept the equalities of Socialism. Some like
it, others will never be reconciled to it."
"Do you think Communism or Fascism will follow Socialism?" I asked.
He laughed. "No, most of us aren't so worried about 'isms'
as you are in the States. Perhaps it's because we have so little
to lose materially. You Yankees are afraid because you have so
much of everything. You're like the man with a full granary—
who is afraid of thieves and hires bodyguards. We have no
such fears."
UNDER COVER IN LONDON
His last words remained with me as I returned to my hotel,
the Cumberland, where I had a room overlooking Hyde Park,
Britain's historic forum for free speech. Would he be so casual