I regret that what I said was true. The behaviour of the British troops posted to 'keep the peace' in pre-Israel Mandatory Palestine, along with that of the separately recruited Palestine Police, was disgraceful. The sort of incident I referred to above was notoriously commonplace. There was an awful sense of shame that British people could do such things. The same was said IIRC of those left holding the fort in various other colonies likely to be on the verge of independence: what went on in Kenya, on both sides, in MauMau days doesn't bear thinking of.

~M~