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...pleasant surprise to find in TIME for Oct. 1 the report from the Middle East on the forgotten Arab refugees. Too long has this situation been neglected, leading to deterioration not only in the physical and moral condition of the Arab refugees but also of our international relations...
...have read with interest and mixed feelings your article entitled "The Forgotten." . . . [It] does not present all the facts . . . You have not pointed to the fact that the Arabs, defying the U.N. partition of Palestine, invaded Israel . . . The Arab propaganda machine bid Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes . . . Helping this situation along was the fact that the British pulled their garrisons out of Haifa and Jaffa a month before the end of the mandate . . . Arabs who were smart enough not to flee from Israel are getting along much better than their fellowmen who fled at Arab instigation-and considerably better...
...Middle East during June and July, and made an intensive study of the Arab refugee question in Lebanon, Jordan and the Gaza strip. The thing is appalling . . . The Arab league does nothing for the Arab refugee except in one place, the Arab Development Project, near the Dead Sea . . . These states refuse to meet with Israelis to consider a solution of the refugee problem within the framework of the general peace settlement...
From 1943 to 1945 he covered the Pacific theatre for Time and Life and ended up aboard the Missouri to witness the Japanese surrender. From there he followed the Chinese civil war and later arrived in Palestine in time for the Israeli-Arab conflict...
Turkey emerged from World War II lonely and friendless. It had played the hard-to-get neutral, declaring war on Nazi Germany only at the last moment, in February 1945, in time to qualify for U.N. membership. It was cut off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the Moskofs (as the Turks call the Russians) started growling. Turkey's stout defiance of Soviet demands for joint control of the Dardanelles taught the U.S. and the Western world, in 1946 still under...