I suppose the most remarkable thing about the delegation of
Israeli, journalists now touring this country is that it exists at all. Little more than two years ago there was no Israel to send delegations ; a year ago relations between Britain and Israel were so bad that hardly anyone went from one country to the other unless he had to. There seemed, however, to be nothing at all artificial in the bonhomie with which the Israeli journalists met some of the British confreres on Monday, under the auspices of the Jewish Chronicle. Perhaps a common concern about the newsprint position forms a potent bond. The editor of Ha'aretz, one of the oldest and biggest Hebrew dailies, told me that the newsprint for one day's edition had only arrived on the quayside twelve hours before his paper went to press—and that consignment was 'diverted from China.
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