Ada Evening News · 11 January 1949
CP-1949-013
Palestinian Arabs In Distress, Hope For Speedy War End
Want to Go Back to Homes, Work; Bid for Abdullah to Take Over Palestine
By John Roderick, The Associated Press, Kyrenia, Cyprus
Transcribed from the clipping
“EDITOR’S NOTE: The writer of the following dispatch backgrounding the situation in Arab Palestine has served several months in Arab capitals and with Arab armies in the Holy Land war.) KYRENIA, Cyprus, Jan. 11, (AP)—Palestinian Arabs, disillusioned and embittered, are hoping for a speedy end to the war which has cut up the Holy Land and driven many of them from their homes.
It was in this mood that some invited King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan last month to take over the rule of Palestine. Why has Abdullah taken so long to answer? He is seeking a formula which would make the merger palatable to the outside world.”
Context added by this archive
The word Palestinian is in the headline in 1949, and the line under it says what they want: to go back to their homes and their work. This copy of the dispatch is cut off at the subhead “Tries to Force C—”.
An earlier version of this record carried four further sentences about the Arab Legion and the military government; those belong to the same AP dispatch and are printed in full on the Sun Journal copy held here, so they have been moved to that record.
Cite this clipping
"Palestinian Arabs In Distress, Hope For Speedy War End," Ada Evening News, 11 January 1949, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-013
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The same copy, in 2 other papers
Palestinian Arabs Hope For PeaceMcAlester News-Capital11 January 1949CP-1949-014
Palestinian Arabs, Embittered At War’s Course, Invites Abdullah To Act in Hope for Speedy PeaceSun Journal11 January 1949CP-1949-015
Their text and this one are nearly identical. 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.
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