Brendan Bracken blew a series of smoke rings in the air. “Your men were right,
Sowerbutt, to let the Haganah or the Irgun, a bunch of terrorists, as I am now led
to believe, take the Jerry general. Saved everybody a lot of trouble. The obvious
course was for them to take the Jerry general across to
Ireland with the plan of scoring points about perfidious Albion. And the good
news would be he was off our hands.
Sipping his Black Label, Bracken said: “The only difficulty is
they have not gone to Ireland so far. John, here, is keeping a close watch on
the ferry ports and no-one has turned up yet. No more private sailing allowed
and our fishing fleets have been carefully checked. Ergo, our dear Jerry
general is still here and a potential problem for us on British soil.“According to our Zionist friends, with whom the Palestinians have been in touch, they are threatening to deliver Herr General to the Soviet Embassy and expose our double-dealing. Not that we owe anything to the Russians but the propaganda onslaught would not be helpful. The Commons would not be too impressed and it would give the Isolationists across the Atlantic a field day. What the lunatics want is for the British authorities to open the Palestinian borders to the Jewish refugees from Europe. That’s not going to happen, we need the Arab oil for the war effort. All we can do in the Middle East as ever is a balancing act. Any ideas, Sowerbutt?”
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