Hope Rises for Palestine Refugee Settlement

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NEW YORK — UN diplomats believe there may be a glimmer of hope in one of the saddest human tragedies of our times: the Palestine refugee problem. Paradoxically, the element of hope springs in part from the June war which, for the short run, has made the problem vastly worse, adding 239,000 new refugees and uprooting once again 116,000 victims of the 1948 war.

THE VERY DESPERATION of these new refugees — the fact they face winter’s rigors in flimsy tents or less, with little but rags on their backs, few blankets and near-starvation rations — has jolted governments which have kept the problem frozen for nearly 20 years. If there is no solution, thousands of people could die.

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Transcribed from a scan of the printed page. NOTHING ON THIS SCAN NAMES THE NEWSPAPER and no date is printed on it, so both the publication and the date rest on the slide label. The date is corroborated from inside the article, which refers to 'the sinking of the Israeli destroyer Elath and Israel's reprisal shelling of Suez' - the Eilat was sunk on 21 October 1967 and Israel shelled the Suez refineries on 24 October - and to the UNRWA report 'covering July 1, 1966, to June 30, 1967', so the piece is from the last week of October 1967 and the label's 31 October is consistent. THE PUBLICATION NAME WOULD BE NEW TO THE ARCHIVE: 'The Detroit News' appears nowhere in the existing records, which hold 'Detroit Free Press' but not the News. Since nothing on the page confirms it, a new newspaper would be created on a label's authority alone. See the queries. The photo_caption field holds the caption printed under the editorial cartoon, which is the cartoon's title. Read from crops magnified to sixteen times page scale.

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"Hope Rises for Palestine Refugee Settlement," The Detroit News, 31 October 1967. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-062. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-062