For nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees.
The exception, Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone was aboard for Manhattan's tabloid PM. Presumably with the aid of U.S. Zionists, he had joined an illegal group "somewhere in Europe," accompanied them...
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