BACK PALESTINE TRUCE CHIEF.

New U. S. Plan for Palestine Denuied by State Department,

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Washington, March 15. (AP)—The State department declared today its "utmost support" for the present United Nations armistice chief in Palestine and denied that any plan to curtail his authority is being considered. Lincoln White, press officer, said he can find no one in the State department "who has ever heard of" a reported plan for creation of a new U.

N. commission to operate in Israel and the Arab states. The armistice chief is General E. L. M. Burns of Canada. White's statements were in comment on a report published by the New York Times that the United States was drawing up proposals for a watchdog U. N. commission to rove through Israel and the Arab states.

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping.

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MARIA'S FLAGGED SLIDE. Clipped column, no masthead, no folio, no printed date; date is label-only. The dateline 'Washington, March 15' is one day before Maria's label of 16 March 1956, which is the normal relationship between an afternoon-filed AP story and a morning paper — The Kansas City Times was the morning edition. No byline; AP credit in the dateline.

PRINTER'S ERROR PRESERVED IN THE DEK: the second deck line reads 'Denuied by State Department,' — 'Denuied' for 'Denied', a transposed i and u in the metal. Kept as printed. The headline ends with a full stop and the deck with a comma, both as set.

A separate AP item from Tunis about the suspension of the city's police director runs immediately below and is NOT part of this article. WORDS FOR THE PLACE AND PEOPLE: 'Palestine' appears three times — in the headline, in the deck and in the phrase 'the present United Nations armistice chief in Palestine'.

In 1956, eight years after the state was declared, this American paper still calls the territory under UN truce supervision Palestine. But the parties are 'Israel and the Arab states', twice. WHAT IS ABSENT: there are no Palestinians. Palestine is the place where a truce is supervised; the people the truce is supervised over are either a state or a bloc of other states.

The clipping never uses the words 'Arab refugees', 'Palestinian' or 'Palestinian Arab'. THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION BEHIND THE STORY, FOR MARIA'S NOTE: General E. L. M. Burns was Chief of Staff of UNTSO, the UN body supervising the 1949 armistice lines drawn across Palestine.

The 'Palestine' in this headline is the territory those lines run through; the people whose villages those lines cut through are not in the story. Seven months after this was printed Israeli Border Police killed 49 villagers at Kafr Qasim, on 29 October 1956 — the event the archive's 1956-58 Commons uploads cover.

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"BACK PALESTINE TRUCE CHIEF.," The Kansas City Times, 16 March 1956. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-049. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-049