The Israel Army has achieved a high degree of proficiency, Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks, former commander of British forces in Germany, who last fall observed the Israeli forces on war maneuvers, declared last night at a Joint Palestine. Appeal dinner here.
He said the Israeli force had reached this degree of proficiency because it was a young army officered by young men, because nearly all the officers had served with the Jewish Brigade and therefore were war-seasoned soldiers and, finally, because the victory over the Arab armies had given the Israel Army a high morale. He said he thought that the Israel Army’s mobilization arrangements were the best of any force he had seen anywhere in the world.
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