p.

4/
One evening I went to the cinema + saw a perfectly
awful film with Joan Crawford + James Stewart - I
could not stick it + left in the middle l that girl
is quite unbearable- does she really believe herself to
be an actress?
Since Wednesday, things have been very much over-
shadowed by the loss of the ship "St Inna" with over
700 lives- + it has had a very deep affect on me too.
I wander has this been in the English papers. All
the people on board were Rumanian Jews- men, women
+ children who had escaped from the horror of Rumania
by the only route open to them- across the Black
Sea. They left about 6 - 7 months ago + they were making
for Palestine- about 760 people on a small ship
which would have been overcrowded with 200. The ship
sprung a leak. + they put in at a Turkish port
where some mechanical help was given to them +
some food. meanwhile the Palestine Government
which is all British, refused them persmission to
enter Palestine. And so for weeks + months that
ship has been hanging about the Dardanelles. with
disease on board + several people even went mad.
The Jewish Agency made strenuous efforts all the time
+ finally after weeks of arguments + deliberations +
procrastinations the Govt agreed to allow the
children only to be taken off. But before this could
be effected, the ship sunk, + over 700 people were
drowned. It makes me shudder- + feel very angry too-