The Palestine War Jon Kimche, F. M. Catlack, Henry Adler
The Schizoid State Carry Allighan Air Travel—US Style J. 0. Cherrington American Provocation Geoffrey Stone After Wolfenden Geoffrey P. T. Paget King, Allan Hors/all The Proms F. E. G. Pirouet American Food Katharine Whitehorn Tied Houses A. Biggar Public Relations Mark Stone THE PALESTINE WAR SIR,—I am puzzled. Has not Mr. Childers reviewed the wrong book? '
He accuses 'the Kimches' of suppressing 'the grim campaign' to get the inmates of the DP camps to Palestine. But we devoted a whole book, Secret Roads, which was published in January, 1956, to this subject. Is this, therefore, not rather a case of unfortunate omission on Mr. Childers's part than suppression by us? The book he is supposed to be reviewing deals with the Palestine war.
Mr. Childers has also had recourse to rather more licence than is customary in his quotations from Mr. Richard Crossman and from Both Sides of the Hill. His Crossman quotation telescopes three paragraphs into one short sentence and thus wholly changes its meaning. When referring to our book, Mr. Childers not only inserts a significant word which is not in the text but also drops the most relevant part of the sentence and substitutes an ellipsis.
And while on the subject of quotations, my ap- preciation for Mr. Childers's enthusiasm for Jewish 'liberals' would have been less jaundiced if his more erudite supporting quotations on this subject had not also appeared, no doubt by sheer coincidence, in Alfred Lilienthal's handbook for American anti- Zionists What Price Israel, and had his selection of some of the representative Jewish 'liberals' been less questionable: Lastly, it would seem almost superfluous to add that the so-called Roosevelt and Kimberley schemes for settling DPs, on which Mr. Childers sets such great store, never had any reality—even as plans. There was no Roosevelt plan for the' Zionists to sabotage, and the' Kimberley project was 'killed' by the Australian Premier John Curtin on July 15, 1943, when he wrote to its sponsor, Dr. 1. N. Stein- . berg, that 'after mature consideration of all cir- cumstances . . . the Government is ;unable to de- part from the long-established policy in regard to alien settlement in Australia,' and therefore could not entertain the proposal.
Does this really read like Zionist sabotage?— Yours faithfully, JON KIMCHE 34 North Gate, Prince Albert Road, NW8
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