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title: القمح الأميركي في نجدة الأردنيين (American Wheat to the Aid of the Jordanians) (Arabic photo-set poster distributed in the Middle East)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-wheat-for-the-jordanians-arabic-1953/
description: A photo-set poster in nine pictures and a boxed text reporting that the American steamer Albion landed 9,670 tons of wheat at Aqaba as a gift
section: Collection
---

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# القمح الأميركي في نجدة الأردنيين (American Wheat to the Aid of the Jordanians) (Arabic photo-set poster distributed in the Middle East)

A photo-set poster in nine pictures and a boxed text reporting that the American steamer Albion landed 9,670 tons of wheat at Aqaba as a gift from the United States to the Jordanian people. Pictures show the ship, workers on the quay, sacks carried ashore, lorries, and bread-making in Amman. The tell is transfer: the relief of a grain shortage in southern Jordan is attached to the United States as donor, with officials named as receiving it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
القمح الأميركي في نجدة الأردنيين

في مياه العقبة .. بدت الباخرة الأميركية «البيون» متجهة نحو ميناء العقبة وعليها هدية القمح إلى الشعب الأردني .

على رصيف ميناء العقبة جلس مائة من العمال الفلسطينيين والأردنيين العرب يراقبون الباخرة «البيون» وهي تتجه نحو الميناء .

رست في مياه العقبة - الميناء الأردني على البحر الاحمر - في الاسبوع الماضي، الباخرة الاميركية (البيون) وعليها ٩٦٧٠ طناً من القمح ، هدية من الولايات المتحدة الى الشعب الاردني مساهمة منها في تفريج الازمة الشديدة التي يعانيها الاردنيون في المنطقة الجنوبية من جراء قحط مواسم الحبوب ونفاد المخزون منها من الاعوام السابقة .

ولم تمض ساعة واحدة على وصول هدية القمح الى الميناء الاردني - وكان في استقبالها بعض الوزراء الاردنيين والسفير الاميركي ورجال الصحافة - حتى هرع اكثر من مائة عامل من العمال الفلسطينيين والاردنيين الى ظهر الباخرة وشرعوا في تعبئة القمح في اكياسه ونقلها على الصنادل الخفيفة الى البر ومنه بالسيارات الكبيرة الى محطات السكة الحديدية ومراكز التوزيع في المنطقة الجنوبية ليشرع بتوزيع القمح بالحال على المحتاجين من اهالي المناطق المنكوبة .

وتسير عمليات التفريغ والتعبئة الآن بنسبة ثمانمائة طن في اليوم الواحد بحيث يتوقع ان يستغرق تفريغ حمولة الباخرة كلها اثني عشر يوماً ، اما عمليات النقل والتوزيع فستستمر حتى منتصف شهر شباط القادم . وهذه اول مرة يستقبل فيها ميناء العقبة الاردني باخرة تجارية اميركية .

وخارج منطقة الميناء .. ما كادت تلقي الباخرة مرساتها ، حتى انطلق العمال على الصنادل الخفيفة الى ظهرها للشروع بعمليات التعبئة .

عمليات التفريغ والنقل في اوجها... وها هو رصيف ميناء العقبة يزدحم بالعمال وعلى ظهورهم اكياس القمح ينقلونها من الصنادل الخفيفة الى السيارات الكبيرة .

على ظهر الباخرة «البيون» ، واثناء تعبئة القمح في الاكياس لنقله الى مراكز التوزيع ومنها الى الاردنيين المنكوبين بقحط مواسم الحبوب .

وارسلت كميات من القمح الى المطاحن في عمان خرجت منها دقيقاً الى الافران ثم خبزاً شهياً .

وازدحمت عنابر الباخرة بعشرات العمال الفلسطينيين الذين جيء بهم من نابلس والخليل .

واصطفت سيارات النقل الكبيرة على طول رصيف الميناء لحمل الدفعات الاولى الى مراكز التوزيع ومحطات السكك الحديدية .

[ship's name on hull:] ALBION
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
AMERICAN WHEAT TO THE AID OF THE JORDANIANS

In the waters of Aqaba .. the American steamer "Albion" appeared, heading for the port of Aqaba with the gift of wheat to the Jordanian people on board.

On the quay of Aqaba port a hundred Palestinian and Arab Jordanian workers sat watching the steamer "Albion" as it headed for the port.

Last week there anchored in the waters of Aqaba - the Jordanian port on the Red Sea - the American steamer (Albion) carrying 9,670 tons of wheat, a gift from the United States to the Jordanian people, as a contribution from it to relieving the severe crisis suffered by the Jordanians in the southern region as a result of drought in the grain seasons and the exhaustion of their stocks from previous years.

Not one hour had passed after the arrival of the wheat gift at the Jordanian port - and it was received by some Jordanian ministers, the American ambassador and press men - before more than a hundred Palestinian and Jordanian workers rushed to the deck of the steamer and began packing the wheat in its sacks and carrying them on light barges to shore, and from there by large lorries to the railway stations and distribution centres in the southern region, so that the wheat might at once begin to be distributed to the needy among the people of the stricken areas.

Unloading and packing now proceed at the rate of eight hundred tons a day, so that it is expected that unloading the whole cargo of the steamer will take twelve days, while transport and distribution will continue until the middle of next February. This is the first time the Jordanian port of Aqaba has received an American commercial steamer.

And outside the port area .. the steamer had hardly dropped anchor before the workers set out on light barges to its deck to begin the packing operations.

Unloading and transport at their height... and here is the quay of Aqaba port crowded with workers with sacks of wheat on their backs, carrying them from the light barges to the large lorries.

On the deck of the steamer "Albion", while the wheat was being packed into sacks to be carried to the distribution centres and from there to the Jordanians stricken by the drought of the grain seasons.

Quantities of wheat were sent to the mills in Amman, from which it came out as flour to the ovens and then as appetising bread.

And the holds of the steamer were crowded with dozens of Palestinian workers who were brought from Nablus and Hebron.

And the large lorries lined up along the port quay to carry the first consignments to the distribution centres and railway stations.

[ship's name on hull:] ALBION
```

Captions and boxed text are transcribed as separate paragraphs; their on-page position is not reproduced. Punctuation marks that print as spaced full stops are reproduced as read.

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