"COMMON GANGSTERS"
THE PALESTINE TERRORISTS
CHANGE IN ARMY'S VOCABULARY
JERUSALEM, March 4. Lieutenant-general MacMillan told British officers that the word terrorist would be banned from the Army’s vocabulary. They would be called murderers, felons, or common thugs. The word terrorist had acquired a certain
glamour, but the men so described
were comparable with the Chicago gangsters of a decade ago.
The Irgun Zvai Leu mi, claiming military successes at Petachtikvah and Hadera on the first day of martial law, declared: “ America, France, Russia, and all free people will stand with ns against the aggressors and tyranny,” says the Associated Press correspondent, who points out that no attacks on Petachtikvah or Hadera were reported. The Jewish-owned English language newspaper, * Palestine Post,’ last night received an anonymous telephone call saying that Irgun soldiers would attack, two British security zones in Jerusalem during the night.
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Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 7
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