FOOD FOR PALESTINE
IMPORTS ARRANGED END OF MANDATE PERIOD (10 a.m.") NEW YORK, April 20. The United Nations Palestine Commission announced yesterday that it had completed arrangements to cover Palestine’s food requirements until July 15. The food imports will be financed by a firm called Steel Brothers which will provide 80 per cent of the cost and the Jewish Agency and Arab Chamber of Commerce •will contribute the balance. Britain announced recently that she could not finance food purchases after giving up the mandate on May 15. Steel Brothers is described as a large Palestinian importing firm, headed by Britons. The total food transaction amounts to about 5,200,000 dollars. The New York Herald-Tribune says that Steel Brothers are taking no responsibility after the food is delivered to its warehouses in Haifa. The Jews and Arabs must carry out the distribution.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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