Santa Barbara News-Press · Santa Barbara, California · 18 June 1967

CP-1967-003

The Palestinian Refugees…

Our Readers' Views

Sheldon T. Mills, former United States ambassador to Jordan

Transcribed from the clipping

"Editor, News-Press: I wish to thank the News-Press for its kindness in inviting me on June 5 to express my views on the Middle East crisis. When speaking with your reporter I did not know that armed conflict had broken out. Had I known, I still would have confined my re..." On the refugees: "They are either city and town people or farmers from the villages of Palestine. They could no more sustain life in the desert than you or I."

Context added by this archive

Eleven days after the war began, a former US ambassador writes to his local paper.

Cite this item

"The Palestinian Refugees…," Santa Barbara News-Press, 18 June 1967. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-003

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