San Antonio Light · San Antonio, Texas · 10 October 1920
CP-1920-004
Palestine’s Regeneration a Great Success
American engineer, returning after a visit, says the plan of the Zionists is working out, with American Jews taking the leadership and working out the problems
Edward Marshall, interviewing the engineer H. T. Cory
Transcribed from the clipping
“Thus in Palestine mankind really has a better natural opportunity than is found in the best of the wonderful American Pacific coast, but there is some lack of merit in the human material at hand. The problem is terrific, largely because of the deeply-rooted antipathies existing between the various inhabitant races. It seems to me that the task is far less that of getting the Hebrews into Palestine (they are coming so fast that the trouble seems to be to keep them out) than of getting Palestine fully and efficiently ready for their coming.” The same interview records the Bedouins attacking Jericho and notes that “these same Arabs were courteous enough to our Zionist party en route to Jaffa.”
Context added by this archive
The human material at hand. An engineer reaches for the word he would use about gravel, and a Texas paper prints it on a Sunday. The piece is arguing that the country is a success story, which is why it keeps mentioning the people already in it.
Cite this item
"Palestine’s Regeneration a Great Success," San Antonio Light, 10 October 1920. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1920-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1920-004
Elsewhere in the archive
- Lebanon thwarts Israel’s expulsion of PalestiniansSan Antonio Light · 18 December 1992 · the same newspaper
- Criticizes Zionists' MethodsThe American Israelite · 26 February 1920 · the same year
- Zionists and the Palestinian FellaheenThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 22 July 1920 · the same year
- APPEAL TO JEWS HERE FOR FREE PALESTINEThe New York Times · 29 November 1920 · the same year
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