In this excerpt from his introduction to this play of his, the British author compares a small, embattled Mediterannean country to Us. — The Schoolmarm
. . . Israel is, first and foremost, a cause, the cause being a patch of land, north to south on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, lying like a small brown anchovy set down on a school atlas, to which the most persecuted people of modern times - perhaps the most persecuted people of all times - after the matchless catastrophe of the Holocaust rushed in the perfectly reasonable belief that they would never be safe until they had a country of their own. . . .
