The New York Times · 2 April 1921

CP-1921-011

PROMISES THE ARABS RIGHTS IN PALESTINE

Churchill Tells Them It Is to Be ‘A,’ Not ‘The,’ National Home

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“The establishment of a national home does not mean a Jewish government to dominate the Arabs. It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national centre and a national home in which they might be reunited.”

Context added by this archive

Churchill, to a Moslem delegation in Jerusalem, drawing the distinction the headline keeps: a national home, not the national home. The indefinite article was doing a great deal of work in 1921, and the promise in the headline is the one the next three clippings in this archive watch come apart.

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"PROMISES THE ARABS RIGHTS IN PALESTINE," The New York Times, 2 April 1921. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1921-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1921-011

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