Get ‘Food for Peace’

Transcribed from the clipping

“The U.S. Food for Peace program will provide 95,000 tons of floor to help feed 1 million Palestine refugees in Jordan, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. The program will be administered by the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA). Use of surplus products, under the Food for Peace program, has enabled the United States to reduce its cash contribution to the UNRWA.”

Context added by this archive

Four sentences in a Black Mississippi weekly in 1962. A million Palestine refugees, counted, in a note about American surplus grain — and the last sentence is about what the arrangement saves the United States. “floor” is the paper’s.

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"Get ‘Food for Peace’," Jackson Advocate, 8 September 1962. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1962-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1962-002

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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