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diet. Between the appetizer and soup, we minced him. Between the soup and entree we had him roasted, or hanging
from Palestinian lamp-posts. Thereafter the Jew—dead, quartered, massacred—was with us till we left.
"Palestine is the only country in the world where the Gentiles can get theirs in against the Jews," Canning said. We all
agreed that killing off six hundred thousand Jews would be
as easy for the Arabs as shooting ducks.
Miss Newton said she had bought property in Palestine
many years ago for £3,800 and had sold it to the Jews for
£47,000. "I plan to have my property back after the Jews have
been disposed of," she added callously.
"I give the Jew two years after the Arabs win," Canning
observed. "The Arabs will do it gradually."
They discussed Miss Newton's plan to buy ambulances and
medical supplies for the Arabs. Canning promised to hold
receptions in his apartment to raise funds. "We'll help behind
the scenes," he said. "It wouldn't do for me to appear publicly on your committee. They'll call you Fascist. The Admiral has also been smeared. We'll all work from the sidelines."
"All of us should help, whether with a rifle in our right
hand, or with our left hand in our pocket," Admiral Domville added brightly.
"Helping the Arab should come before our efforts at
home," said Miss Newton.
"If we break the back of the Jew in Palestine, we have
broken it for a long time to come," was Ramsay's contribution
to the conversation.
INTERNATIONAL HATE-MERCHANT
I RETURNED to my hotel to find a letter addressed to
Charles L. Morey which had been forwarded to me from St.
John, Indiana. It was from a notorious Swedish anti-Semite,
Einar Aberg. In it he suggested that I ought to write one