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The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 17 August 1937

CP-1937-005

Arab’s Feelings on Palestine Plan

Mrs. Arnold discusses laborer’s attitude respecting partition as contrasted with policies of aggressive racial leaders

Paula Arnold, foreign correspondence of The Sun, dateline Haifa

Arab’s Feelings on Palestine Plan — The Baltimore Sun, 17 August 1937
The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 17 August 1937

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“There is the local press, both Arabic and Jewish, more vehement in its denunciation of the plan as time goes on, and it appears that all responsible Arab and Jewish bodies and persons are, or rather seem, against it.” She calls the proposed state a “waistcoat pocket state.”

Context added by this archive

A woman filing from Haifa for a Baltimore paper, reporting that both the Arabic and the Jewish press rejected partition. There was an Arabic press to report on.

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"Arab’s Feelings on Palestine Plan," The Baltimore Sun, 17 August 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-005

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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