Arabs Call Partition Decision Russ Victory

United Press, Lake Success

Transcribed from the clipping

“LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 4 (UP)—Arab officials, preparing to carry their fight against Palestine partition into the United Nations Security Council, characterized the plan to divide the Holy Land today as a diplomatic victory for Russia… ‘I can’t understand it,’ said Camille Chamoun of Lebanon, one of the leading opponents of partition in the recent Assembly fight. ‘The United States fights to hold back Communism in Turkey and Greece,’ he remarked, and then invites Communism to come into the Middle East…’ Under a second headline, <i>Holy Land Violence Called ‘Less Violent Than Expected’</i>: Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the World Jewish Congress Executive, said today the rioting in Palestine following the United Nations decision was ‘less violent than expected.’”

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Printed beside a full-course dinner advertisement for the Cliff House, $1.50 to $2.90.

Cite this item

"Arabs Call Partition Decision Russ Victory," San Francisco Chronicle, 5 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-010

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Arabs Accuse Israel, Ask U.N. ProbeSan Francisco Chronicle · 15 December 1956 · the same newspaper
Israeli Opposition Goes Back to Attacking Peace ProcessSan Francisco Chronicle · 23 November 1995 · the same newspaper
'America Should Lead in Solving Palestine Problem'Elmira Star-Gazette · 1 January 1947 · the same year
Forcing Palestine to Become a World Problem(newspaper unidentified) · 1 January 1947 · the same year
UN Turns Down Pleas of ArabsNews-Record · 13 May 1947 · the same year

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