Under a sunny sky and with perfect Spring weather, inhabitants of the flooded areas in Palestine today went about the work of surveying damages and planning reconstruction.
Unofficial estimates place the damage done by the three-day storm at $750,000. The loss of life, still not official, is twenty-four dead, all Arabs.
A moratorium on all debts has
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