Springfield Leader and Press · 3 September 1946

CP-1946-004

Palestinians Are People With Their Own Problems

A FACT OFTEN OVERLOOKED

By Carter L. Davidson, The Associated Press, Jerusalem

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“JERUSALEM, Sept. 3—(AP)—Beneath the sound and fury of Palestine’s politico-racial miseries, one thing is often forgotten: Palestine is a land where people live, love, and listen to music. The world has a Palestine Problem because the Jews and Arabs have religious and racial affinities that transcend national boundaries. But Palestinians are people and they have problems, too.

They go to work in the morning, have tea in the afternoon and go to the movies at night. They hear symphony music and opera, they go dancing and gather in taverns. Sometimes they get drunk, they haggle with the butcher and miss buses. Palestine is a little orphan country waiting for its powerful uncles to decide its destiny.

But its peoples’ lives go on… Some two dozen foreign newsmen, representing the world’s big agencies and newspapers, live in Jerusalem’s hotels and report news as it happens, glean bits and pieces of intelligence from government ‘handouts,’ and write deep ‘think pieces.’ They visit the homes of Arab and Jew and are plied with coffee, brandy and political persuasion.

Local newspapers in English, Hebrew and Arabic tell Palestine readers of the world’s events that affect this country. They tell it with vitriolic comment and often with little regard for objectivity. The British government scissors out the passages it contends might incite violence.

The people read what’s printed and read into it what they will—and then turn to a review of last night’s performance of Brahm’s Fourth Symphony by the Palestine orchestra, or scan a list of the movies, of British, American, French or Egyptian origin, playing in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jaffa or Jerusalem.”

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The same AP dispatch the Saginaw News ran that day, set longer and under a different headline. This copy leaves the word labor out of the first sentence and keeps the passage about the foreign press corps and the British censor. The subhead is “Scenic, Healthful.” “Brahm’s” is the paper’s.

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• Under The Sound And Fury Palestinians People, TooSaginaw News3 September 1946CP-1946-003

Most of the shorter text appears in the longer one. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.