We
just got back from traveling, again - this time to the Near East. We left on October 17 and returned November
4. Just a few days prior to our
departure the government agreed to a UN plan to partition Palestine into
independent Jewish and Arab states.
H.A. called for the creation of a Jordan Valley authority, based on the
successful TVA program in the States, and he called on the Jews and Arabs to
“abide faithfully by the ultimate decision of the United Nations.” H.A. believes that peace is possible even in
Palestine. He said, “I saw evidence on
the village level that the Jew and Arab get along very well, provided hatred
and discord are not incited from the outside.”
While
we were away HUAC was at it again. They
held a hearing on Communism in Hollywood.
H.A. attacked HUAC from Palestine, “From here where Elijah fought the
prophets of Baal and close to the mount where Jesus gave his famous sermon,
people without fear ask, ‘Has America really gone crazy?’ Is the un-American committee evidence that
America is traveling the road to fascism?
On behalf of millions everywhere you must answer no so loudly the people
of the world can hear. You must destroy
the un-American committee at the polls and in the courts, or it will destroy
many of the foundations of democracy and Christianity.”
Naturally
H.A. toured kibbutzs and offered his farming advice; he also toured many
religious sites and relics. Speaking of
relics, H.A. stopped in Rome, which included an audience with Pope Pius
XII. When Eugenio Pacelli was elected
Pope Pius XII in 1939 he stopped the Vatican’s criticism of fascist Germany and Italy and praised the victory of
Franco in Spain. Idiot.
© 2014 Ron Millar
