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offices & their British officers too. Ben & Levantin went & I
stayed behind. Mrs Samuel was there & was talking to
Ben about me & apparently told him that she likes me
by far the best of the Majors - this is not so much
of a compliment really, if you were to know the other
majors! Anyway she told Ben to ask me to phone
her in the morning, which I did - when she said
she was staying in Tel-Aviv for a few days & asked me to
come in. I found another man there, a Russian Jew
called Shapira & who is head of the Palestine Electric
Corporation. We then went along to have dinner with
a man & his wife called Kirchner, a South African
Jew & a solicitor. We had an excellent dinner & a most
interesting evening. There is really no doubt, you know,
that Jews of this class & education & intelligence are
very much more intelligent and interesting to
talk to than their English counterparts - on the
average. Mrs S. told a most amusing & pretty
aggravating story about the A.T.S. which has just started
in Palestine. The idea was wroted about a year ago,
& a woman called Commander Chitty came out from
England, specially, to go into the matter. She spent
a few weeks here, then went home & reported that
there were no suitable or available people in the
country! Apparently all she had done was to talk to
Lady MacMichael, the High Commissioner's wife, who
had told her that there were no suitable 'gairls'
at all, all of which were working for her in