Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Answer to What New Nation Is Like By BILLY ROSE Early in my missus and I took a trip around the and one of the countries we got to see was At the many of the streets of Tel Haifa and Jerusalem were still criss-crossed with barbed and the roads leading through the hills of Judea wore with burned-out thanks to an old and a pair of even older I managed to see most of this and when left it a few weeks later I was pretty excited about what I ad When we cot hack to New my old Bernard M. asked me to put my enthusiasm in my pocket and try to estimate Israel's chances of survival in this highly competitive I told him that one swing around the globe wasn't enough f to make an mic expert out of a B Broadway jumping- I H but that I had g come away from Is- EttE reel with the e eral impression that its people were b tough as and Billy Rose prepared to work like all get-out to make a go of their new business or a nation with those qualities usually gives a good account of said as SINCE MY heard nothing to my snap appraisal of On the I other I've read darned little the subject which could be classed as good objective rerouting Most of the favorable tuff was too favorable obviously the work of men who were out to make as good a case for the new nation as And as for the dissenters as was to be most of them sounded as if they were carrying a chip on their Recently copy of a new book by Ralph McGill published in Ga last month bf Tupper and Love showed up on my desk and I began to thumb through it out of a sense of But what started as duly quickly became for editor of one of the South's most trustworthy The Atlanta had obviously gone to Israel with an open mind and crammed it with facts and figures before making it I've met McGill once or and I was halfway his book found myself how this soft-spoken and hard-headed gentleman from Georgia had come to write such an incisive and Insightful commentary on the complicated events now shaping up at the far end of the a a a I GOT TO THINKING about it as I hunch the answer is triple McGill is an which means that while he has a lively sense of justice in general he has no axiom to grind about Israel in p. he is foremost and fastidiously a avaricious for facts but plenty leary of special-pleading And he has a long record as a Southern and once he's gotten his facts straight he's not one to by-pass those touchy areas where even angels fear to When I finished reading I of tickled to find that 1 conclusions jibed with but neither here nor The important is without pulling any be has written a hook about this controversial Utile country which one can read without prejudice or without suspecting the author of at is a meticulous and meaningful answer to the often-asked Israel really |