Transcript: Letters: Plastic Surgery in Afghanistan, Elvis Presley Book

JAMES HATTORI
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
10-14-2007
Letters: Plastic Surgery in Afghanistan, Elvis Presley Book

Host: JAMES HATTORI
Time 13:00-14:00 PM


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JAMES HATTORI, host:

Time now for your letters, and we begin with a correction.

Louis Brownstein(ph), professor of international relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz wrote us a note after he heard Daniel Schorr's commentary about partitions. Dan had said that Palestine, under British mandate, was partitioned in 1948 to create Israel and Transjordan, later Jordan. Professor Brownstein points out that Transjordan was created in 1921 by Britain, not 1948 by the U.N. He is absolutely correct.

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