The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1947

CP-1947-057

Arab Bank to Buy Land in Palestine

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“After more than a year’s delay, the Arab Land Company, a banking organization sponsored jointly by the seven Arab states, will soon begin operations in Palestine in an effort to prevent Arab lands from being bought up by Zionists — the first of its kind.”

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Clifton Daniel from Jerusalem. The counter-move to the Jewish National Fund, arriving in 1947, two months before the partition vote and twenty-six years after the land purchases it was formed to stop. The deadline is the story and the paper does not say so.

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"Arab Bank to Buy Land in Palestine," The New York Times, 7 October 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-057. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-057

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