Records, 1948-1949.

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Records, 1948-1949.

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Records consist of cables, correspondence, reports, agreements, photographs, and miscellaneous other documents primarily from the files of Ralph J. Bunche (Acting Mediator) and of the Headquarters-Advance Command Post in Haifa. These concern armistice negotiations, complaints and investigations, and other matters relating to the Mediator's work in Palestine. Headquarters officials whose files are represented include Colonel Thor Bonde, General Aage Lundstrom, General William E. Riley, the Central Truce Supervision Board, Special Truce Investigation Team, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Political Advisor to the Chief of Staff, Legal Advisor to the Chief of Staff H. Courtney Kingstone, and senior United Nations Military Observers. Also included are the same types of documents from the files of Henry Vigier, who was Personal Deputy of the Acting Mediator and Principal Secretary; representatives in Tel Aviv; J.J. Cebe-Habersky, who was Representative of the Mediator in Syria and Lebanon in Beirut; Pable de Azcarate, who was Representative of the Mediator in Cairo; and the Disaster Relief Project in Beirut, Lebanon, and Amman, Jordan. Of note are some reports of Count Folke Bernadotte in the files of Pable de Azcarate.

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Azcarate, Pable de.

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Bonde, Thor.

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United Nations Military Observers.

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Lundstrom, Aage.

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Vigier, Henry.

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Cebe-Habersky, J. J.

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Riley, William Edward, 1897-

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Kingstone, H. Courtney.

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Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...

Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948

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United Nations. Disaster Relief Project (Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan)

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United Nations Mediator and Acting Mediator for Palestine.

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The task of the Mediator was to negotiate armistice agreements with Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Ralph J. Bunch was appointed as Acting Mediator after the assassination of the Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, in September 1948. From the description of Records, 1948-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486690 ...