Evening Star · Washington, District of Columbia · 2 August 1949
CP-1949-003
Britain Gives $2,000,000 To Resettle Arab Refugees
The Associated Press, London
Transcribed from the clipping
“Britain has given Hashemite Jordan (Trans-Jordan) £500,000 ($2,000,000) to help the Arab kingdom resettle Palestine Arab refugees on its territory.”
Context added by this archive
The earliest clipping here of the answer that would be offered for the next forty years: settle them somewhere else.
Cite this item
"Britain Gives $2,000,000 To Resettle Arab Refugees," Evening Star, 2 August 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-003
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- MODERN MADONNAThe Waukesha County Freeman · 12 January 1949 · the same year
- Palestinian refugees have received from the American Red Cross typhus vaccine sufficient for the inoculation of 450,000 personsPortland Press Herald · 13 February 1949 · the same year
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