In Jerusalem's cool, rose-tinted Y.M.C.A. building last week, the U.N.'s Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) gathered around a horseshoe table to begin its hearings. "Think it's worth listening to?" asked a prospective spectator of the guard at the door. "Well," said the British Tommy, "it might be good for laughs."
It was not. UNSCOP plowed prosily through tons of documents submitted by rival Jewish organizations. (The Arabs boycotted the committee.) Meanwhile, members of the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi attempted to kidnap a Palestine Government liaison officer attached to UNSCOP, but failed. The underground Stern Gang, rejecting a proposed truce...
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