{"id":194049,"date":"1948-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194049"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:44:02","slug":"auto-insert-194049","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194049\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine question – Appointment of Special Commissioner for Palestine – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n

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Department of Public Information<\/p><\/div>\n

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Press and Publications Bureau<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lake Success, New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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Press Release PAL\/165<\/p><\/div>\n

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13 May 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

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CAUTION<\/u>:<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tADVANCE RELEASE\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tTHIS RELEASE IS CONFIDENTIAL AND MUST\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tNOT BE PUBLISHED OR QUOTED FROM BY\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tPRESS OR RADIO BEFORE 7:00 P.M. (EDT)\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tTHURSDAY, 13 MAY 1948\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
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SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Following is the text of a cable which the President of the General Assembly, Dr. Jose Arce, and Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, dispatched today to the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Alan Cunningham:<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\t\t\t\tSIR ALAN CUNNINGHAM\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tHIGH COMMISSIONER\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tJERUSALEM (PALESTINE)\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t\tWE ARE GLAD TO INFORM YOU THAT AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE AND THE ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE BOTH PARTIES HAVE AGREED TO THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. HAROLD EVANS, PHILADELPHIA ATTORNEY AND MEMBER BOARD AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE AS SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 6 MAY 1948.  INASMUCH AS MR. EVANS CANNOT LEAVE FOR PALESTINE FOR A FEW DAYS HE ASKS THAT YOU ANNOUNCE THAT MR. PABLO AZCARATE WHO IS NOW IN JERUSALEM SERVING AS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF THE TRUCE COMMISSION WILL SERVE AS DEPUTY TO THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONER AND PERFORM HIS FUNCTIONS UNTIL HIS ARRIVAL.  AZCARATE'S APPOINTMENT HAS LIKEWISE BEEN AGREED TO BY BOTH PARTIES.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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JOSE ARCE, PRESIDENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY<\/p>\n

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TRYGVE LIE, SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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UNITED NATIONS Department of Public Information Press and Publications Bureau Lake Success, New York Press Release PAL\/165 13 May 1948 CAUTION: ADVANCE RELEASE THIS RELEASE IS CONFIDENTIAL AND MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED OR QUOTED FROM BY PRESS OR RADIO BEFORE 7:00 P.M. (EDT) THURSDAY, 13 MAY 1948 SPECIAL COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE Following is the text […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-194049","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=194049"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=194049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}