39 Herzl, Jewish State, pp. 4, 78.
40 Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet (London: Faber & Faber, 1962), p. 533.
41 Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 6.
42 Quoted in ibid., p. 116.
43 Najib Azuri, quoted in ibid., p. 105.
44 Fisk, Great War, p. 448.
45 Quoted in Hyamson, Palestine under the Mandate, p. 8.
46 Eliot’s character Mordecai argues: ‘The effect of our separateness will not be completed and have its highest transformation unless our race takes on again the character of a nationality…. There is a store of wisdom among us to found a new Jewish polity’ — George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (Ware, UK: Wordsworth, 1996), pp. 442–443. Eliot was also prescient in predicting, ‘We may live to see a great outburst of force in the Arabs’ (ibid., p. 434).
47 Quoted in Schneer, Balfour Declaration, p. 125.
48 Cf. ibid., p. 112.
49 Cf. Hyamson, Palestine under the Mandate, p. 25.
5 °Cf. Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 40.
51 Herzl, Jewish State, pp. 1, 30.
52 Quoted in Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace, pp. 520–521.
53 Herzl, Jewish State, p. 30.
54 Quoted in Antonius, Arab Awakening, p. 264.
55 Cf. Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 4.
56 Quoted in Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 171.
57 Quoted in Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace, pp. 270–271.
58 Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 15.
59 Quoted in Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 199.
60 See Glossary.
61 Cf. Hyamson, Palestine under the Mandate, p. 139.
62 Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 9.
63 Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, p. 473.
64 Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace, pp. 504–505.
65 Leon Uris, Exodus (New York: Bantam, 1959), pp. 19–20.
66 Ibid., p. 95.
67 Ibid., p. 174.
68 Amos Oz, Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays (London: Vintage, 1994), pp. xii, 69.
69 Aggression between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish settlers had existed as early as 1891: Cohn-Sherbok and El-Alami, Palestine — Israeli Conflict, p. 134.
70 Quoted in Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace, p. 523.
71 Quoted in Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 26.
72 Segev, One Palestine, Complete, pp. 249, 257.
73 Ibid., p. 379.
74 Haim Canaani (ed.), Shamir during the War of Independence (Kibbutz Shamir, n.d.).
75 Kibbutz Shamir has grown significantly in recent years, from a population of 600 in 2006 to 800 in 2009, of whom a quarter are children. Today it is one of the most advanced kibbutzim, engaged in the manufacture of optical equipment as well as in agricultural production.
76 Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 90.
77 Quoted in Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 414.
78 Ibid., p. 230. See also Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 130.
79 MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell, p. 333.
80 Herzl, Jewish State, p. 8.
81 The Liberal politician Edwin Montagu, in 1915, quoted in Schneer, Balfour Declaration, p. 146.
82 Oz, Israel, Palestine and Peace, p. 53.
83 Claude, A Chair for the Prophet (London: Faber & Faber, 1959), p. 9.
84 Antonius, Arab Awakening, p. 387.
85 Cf. Fisk, Great War, p. 463.
86 Antonius, Arab Awakening, p. 409.
87 Oz, Israel, Palestine and Peace, pp. 46–47.
88 Quoted in Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 307.
89 Quoted in Fisk, Great War, p. 444.
90 Quoted in Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 442.
91 Fisk, Great War, p. 460.
Acknowledgements
The Editor wishes to thank the following for their assistance in the preparation of this publication:
Dr. James Bantin, Curator, Special Collections, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale;
Anthea Morton Saner, formerly Lawrence Durrell’s agent at Curtis Brown;
Anna Davis, currently agent for the Lawrence Durrell Estate at Curtis Brown;
Brewster Chamberlin, author of A Chronology of the Life and Times of Lawrence Durrell;
Ian MacNiven, author of Lawrence Durrelclass="underline" A Biography and editor of The Durrell — Miller Letters 1935–1980;
Dr. Yaacov Lozowick, Director of the Israeli State Archives;
Dr. Hagai Tsoref, Israeli State Archives;
Yehudit Massad and Joan Halfi, archivists, Kibbutz Shamir, Israel;
Jenny Romero, Special Collections Department Co-ordinator, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles;
Patrick Sammon, a colleague in the Durrell School of Corfu, who gave considerable assistance and advice during proofreading;
and in particular my colleague Dr. Anthony Hirst, Academic Director of the Durrell School of Corfu, for professional support, also for assistance in compiling the Glossary, and for preparing the text for printing.
Glossary
Abbreviations
ADC Aide-de-camp: usually an assistant or adviser to a senior officer.
ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service: the title of the women volunteers’ branch of the British army, 1938–1949.
BEA British European Airways: precursor (with British Overseas Airways Corporation) of British Airways.
C-in-C Commander-in-Chief.
D.P. Displaced Persons.
G.S.O.2 General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade.
H.E. His Excellency: title usually applied to an Ambassador.
H.M.G. His Majesty’s Government: at the time in which Judith is set, the British monarch was George VI (reigned 1936–1952).
MI Military Intelligence.
MT Military Transport.
N.C.O. Non-Commissioned Officer.
O.C. Officer Commanding / Officer in Command.
UNO United Nations Organization.
WT Wireless transmitter.
Technical terms, proper names, foreign and obscure words
ack emma: from an obsolete military ‘phonetic alphabet’, these are the words representing the letters A and M. Thus ‘four ack emma’ means ‘4 a.m.’
acroflavin: acriflavine hydrochloride: a topical antiseptic.
Camberley: a town about 30 miles southwest of the centre of London, home to a Staff College for training British army officers.
Carley floats: life rafts based on compartmented ovals of copper or steel tubing.
cutty pipe: a pipe whose shape is based on that of traditional clay pipes, but without the long stem.