p.

10/
The buildings + gardens + surroundings are lovely: the
classrooms looked just normal; but the kitchens + dining
halls + dairy + so on were really wonderful + I have
never seen such spit + polish + good order anywhere
else before. The Jews really are amazing people- because
I have always looked upon them, not exactly as dirty
people but certainly not so clean as we are; I
have seen it in the men of this Coy, + in some
people's houses who you would expect to know better;
+ here I seemed to see a self realisation of a
national fault, + a definite attempt to do something
about it. It s by far the cleanest place I have seen
in this country. We then had tea- at 7.0 pm
-with the Meizel woman consisting of excellent
home made bread + butter + four different kinds of
cheeses. And we signed the visitors book, which
had in it many interesting names including
the King + Queen of the Belgians.
And then we drove into Haifa + [?] rooms
at a hotel, very conveniently just opposite to Pross's
Restaurant. There I met that ridiculous Terence
Waters- you remember? from [?] he has now
been posted for service with the Jebel D[?] who
are rather a wicked tribe of Arabs from the south
of Syria; + he wears Arab headdress which
hides most of his face. bumps into his long +
straggly moustache: + you can imagine he looks
pretty silly. In spite of the fact that he left