Exodus Page #2

- I hope you don't mind.

- Not at all.

- Good morning, Ben Ami.

- Good morning, sir.

This is Mrs. Fremont,

an American friend of Gen. Sutherland.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

Ben Ami is one of the Palestinians

who run this camp.

Mrs. Fremont has a few days to while away

in Cyprus, and being an experienced nurse...

...the general thought you may find

her assistance valuable.

We find all assistance of value, Maj. Caldwell.

- Would you show him your passport?

- Of course.

Any friend of Gen. Sutherland's

is always welcome.

Convey my respects to the general,

and thank him for us.

Of course. Goodbye. Good luck.

- Call us if you need us.

- Thank you.

- Would you care to come with me?

- Surely.

Yesterday's shipload

will double our hospital capacity.

It's very good of you to help us get organized.

- Leave me alone.

- You're burning up with fever.

If you don't let us clean out the infection

you'll die, that's all.

After coming so far,

you'll die without ever having seen Eretz Israel.

loll see Palestine before you. Now leave me alone.

This woman is trying to help you.

- Do as she says.

- Who are you?

He's the Palestinian commander, that's who.

A Jewish policeman, working for them.

I know your kind from Auschwitz.

- You can't tell me what to do.

- We'll see.

- loll hold him.

- Just try.

Dov! If you don't let them help you, you'll die.

I want to die.

You don't know what you're saying.

loll take them off myself. It won't hurt.

Keep away from me, all of you.

Excuse me.

I think I can talk to him better if we're alone.

We came on the Star of David together,

and I know him. He's just shy.

Don't get too close to the glass.

Dov Landau, you ought to be

ashamed of yourself. Put that down.

I won't.

That hurt.

Not half as bad as it will hurt.

loll teach you. loll beat you all over.

Well? Do you let them take care of you or not?

Not them. But if you want to do it, well, all right.

Thank you.

And don't you ever spit on me again.

Just remember.

- It's all right, loll do it.

- How did you change his mind?

Just patience and kindness.

Yetta will show you around.

Don't hesitate to call on me if I can help.

Thank you.

Now, this is pavilion number two.

Excuse me.

This boy has a skin infection called impetigo.

- He needs sulfathiazole on those scabs.

- If the camp has no such drug?

Leave him alone.

That will spread it all over his body.

- You think so?

- I know it. It's terribly contagious.

My dear, it's this way.

If you have no sulfathiazole...

...and no ammoniated mercury ointment...

...which was the earlier pharmacology,

you soften the scab with soap and water...

...and gently remove it like this, you see?

Then expose the lesion

for five minutes to the sun.

That's also a cure.

- You're a doctor.

- By coincidence.

It was stupid of me to interfere.

I'm a nurse. loll be working here for a while.

Please forgive me.

Dr. Odenheim, it's time for you to rest.

You've been up all night. I know how to do this.

- He taught me on the ship.

- Thank you, child of light.

loll find you something to wear over your dress,

a gown or an apron.

Thank you.

My name is Katherine Fremont. I'm a nurse.

- You can call me Kitty.

- My name's Karen Hansen.

Hansen?

- Then your mother was Jewish?

- Yes, and my father.

- Reuben.

- Shalom, Ari.

- David, how are you?

- Shalom, Ari.

- Mr. Mandria, this is Ari Ben Canaan.

- Welcome.

Very pleased to meet you.

We've heard good things about you in Palestine.

- Rumours. But I like them.

- So do we.

Please sit down.

- Cigar?

- No, thanks.

Well, David,

how many people have you got by now...

...in that barbed wire jungle of yours?

Over 30,000.

And they're building for 30,000 more

on the other side of the island.

How many arrived yesterday

on the Star of David?

Six hundred and eleven.

We're going to take the same 611 off the island

and land them in Palestine.

- Six hundred and eleven?

- He thinks he's Moses.

We haven't been able to break

more than 10 or 15 at a time out of Karaolos.

This will be a new experience.

One thing more. There's a time limit.

Today is Tuesday.

We'll stage the break next Monday.

- Next Monday?

- Why not tomorrow?

Ari, we cannot do it.

The United Nations

will vote on the Palestine issue...

...before the end of this session.

Between now and then

we have to show the world...

...thousands of homeless European Jews...

...are not going to accept any solution

that bars them from Palestine.

A mass escape of the very same people

who arrived on the Star of David...

...is worth more than a million speeches.

But this isn't the Red Sea, Ari.

It's the Mediterranean.

Right. Smite these waters as you will,

they do not part.

That's why you'll have to get us a ship.

I want a legitimate freighter...

...with legal registry and real cargo

we can unload here in Cyprus.

A ship for six...

That's a wonderful idea.

Brilliant.

But the expense will be brilliant also.

Not too brilliant.

You know, our treasury is based on donations,

and right now we're rather low.

- Well, can you deliver or not?

- loll do my best.

We Cypriots are with you.

For the Jews, Mandria will do everything.

The Jews have paid you well for your efforts,

Mr. Mandria.

- Ari, you've got to understand-

- No, Reuben. I say it.

Do you believe that I, Plato Mandria,

would do this for money?

Do you think I'd risk

I tell you, it has cost me over 5,000

since I work with the Haganah.

You owe him an apology, Ari.

I do apologize, Mr. Mandria.

It was a stupid remark.

Not necessary.

If I apologize each time I get stupid,

I'd spend a lifetime on my knees.

- Also, we'll need 14 lorries.

-14, he says. Why not 1,400?

The British have requisitioned every car,

truck and lorry on this island.

Haganah makes mistakes just like anybody else.

This is one of them.

David, I want to hear every objection,

every criticism, every suggestion, but only once.

- Now the boat project is under way, right?

- Almost accomplished.

I will send a telegram to a shipbroker in Athens.

- Don't the British monitor telegrams?

- Naturally.

But some of the monitors are Cypriots.

They'd like the Britons in Britain,

the Jews in Palestine...

...and the Cypriots in Cyprus.

Not, mind you, that I'm anti-British.

If I must have a master,

the British are far the best.

But the problem, my dear friend, is,

why have a master at all?

Shouldn't have hurt him, Ari. He's a real friend.

Maybe, but don't let the Mandrias fool you.

They work for us and say how terrible it was...

...that 6,000,000 Jews went into the oven.

But when the showdown comes,

we always stand alone.

Mandria will sell us out like all the others.

We have no friends, except ourselves.

Remember that.

You're wrong,

but you'll have to learn that for yourself.

Now tell me, how is Jordana?

I think she's in love.

You've had this letter since last night-

I forgot about it.

He's in love with her, so he thinks everyone is.

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