THE GREEN KING (part 68)
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The Candlesticks
of Bogota
In October and
November of the same year, 1945, they took part in a dozen missions, one of
which took them into the desert and lasted six days. The objective was to blow
up, in as many places as possible, one of the British Iranian pipelines.
Apart from this
missions, they lived in Tel Aviv, where the Irgun had found them housing and
official work to serve as a cover. Yoel Bainish became a shopkeeper, selling
knickknacks in a booth an Allen by road. Reb Klimrod was a waiter in a
coffeehouse on Ben Yehouda Street. The place was frequented mostly by lawyers.
His progress in English was spectacular, and fascinated Yoel, who was himself
quite talented when it came to learning languages. Besides Yiddish and Hebrew,
Yoel spoke fluent Polish, German, and Russian and he too woud soon be speaking
English. At that time, whenever he had a free moment, Reb went to the movies,
where American films in the original language were usually being shown. Bainish
remembers that the tall Viennese would sit through twelve or fifteen
consecutive screenings of Citizen Kane, Bataa Patrol, Objective Burma, the Marx
Brothers’ Go west, and My Darling Clementine, and he could do a perfect
imitation of Bogart in The Maltese Falcon and suave Cary Grant in Philadelphia
Story. Even the indescribable nasal sound of Groucho Marx. He still read
voraciously, but now it was mostly in English.
And there was
an undeniable relationship between this bulimia for reading – through the
lawyers he served each day at the coffeehouse he had obtained access to special
libraries – and the change that took place at the end of November. The
partnership of Klimrod and Bainish was dissolved. Each of them had become an
excellent explosive specialist, and to let them work together was redundant.
Begin’s Assault Force was beginning to intensify its activity as the Irgun was
becoming better organized, following the example of the French Resistance.
Leaflets from that period refer to the Bainish as the ‘occupying force,’ and
members of the Irgun were, it was said, no more terrorists than were members of
the French maquis and the German invaders.’
TO BE CONTINUED
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