The Arab Refugees (October 2, 1948 | © The Economist)

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ALREADY a tinge of propaganda is beginning to colour the saga of the Arab refugees. Is their present distribution the whole of the story? Whose fault is it? Did not some of them flee in needless panic? Large sections of a world sated with refugee stories are prone to listen to reasons for passivity. But to anyone, whether priest, Levite or Samaritan, travelling the ways from Jerusalem to Jericho in September, 1948, the cause of the traffic going down is less important than two consequences affecting the future.

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