Palestinian Arabs Hope For Peace

By John Roderick, The Associated Press, Kyrenia, Cyprus

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“(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… Palestinian Arabs vaguely hope, however, that he will recover cities and towns lost to Israeli forces and restore peace and order. Thousands of unemployed clerks, government workers and peasants ask nothing more than a chance to resume their old way of life. Many recall the British mandate with a sigh that it ended… In any event, Abdullah’s Arab Legion has controlled most of Arab Palestine since August. Through a military government, he has given Palestinian Arabs services for education, health, transportation, communication and passports.”

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"Palestinian Arabs Hope For Peace," McAlester News-Capital, 11 January 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-014

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Palestinian Arabs In Distress, Hope For Speedy War EndAda Evening News · 11 January 1949 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Palestinian Arabs, Embittered At War’s Course, Invites Abdullah To Act in Hope for Speedy PeaceSun Journal · 11 January 1949 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
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
Sharett Suggests Exchange of Arab Refugees for Jews Living in Arab CountriesThe Jewish Press · 25 March 1949 · the same year

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