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Jews in Palestine - a Russian, a Yeke, a German, a
Yemenite, & an American. It was frightfully good,
for I did not understand a word of Hebrew, again,
but I could tell exactly what he was doing.
The theatre was small & rather shabby - & reminded
me what a really good little theatre the Civic at
Bradford is, that place was really quite important
to us, wasn't it? And I expect it will be again
when we return.
Thursday Jan 29th After my long letter about the Gergel suicide
case & about the Corp, I expect you will be wondering how
things are. I'm pleased to be able to reassure you that
everything is pretty well, (for there is no need at all for you
to picture me as a lowly Britisher amongst a pack of
unruly & bitter foreigners. I'm afraid that my letter painted
an unduly gloomy picture from some points of view.) The
process by which I have arrived into a better frame
of mind is quite odd & peculiar - & have been helped by
good fortune. The latter, because, at the time I had
two platoons out on detachment, which meant that the
Corp being split up, there was a great deal of misinformed
talk & speculation, which was difficult to know about & to
control & guide. Fortunately, those detachments were
relieved two weeks ago, & so I had the whole Corp
together again, & so have been able to go to work on
them & influence them. The odd & peculiar part is
that behind the scenes there has been a tremendous
amount of talk going on from the men of the Corp
when on weekend leave, to the Jewish Agency &
the Jewish Soldiers Welfare Committee, & most of
which has been repainted back to me. It is difficult
to imagine this, & there is certainly no possible