Herald and Review · 27 September 1948

CP-1948-057

U. S. Negro Ignores Threats In Palestine Mediator Role

The Associated Press, Haifa, Palestine

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“Haifa, Palestine, Sept. 26 (AP)—An American Negro professor is calmly keeping the lid on the Palestine truce in spite of warnings from Jewish terrorists that he is the next man marked for death. Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche, acting United Nations mediator since Count Folke Bernadotte’s assassination nine days ago, is hard to scare.

‘IT WAS the count’s policy not to request personal protection but to leave it to the responsibility of the Jews and Arabs to determine what protection was necessary,’ the former Howard university political science professor said today. ‘That’s still our policy. Last Wednesday when I went to Jerusalem it seemed as if half of Haganah had turned out to guard me.

I never felt so safe! But I hadn’t asked it.’… The new mediator has been told how Sternists told Americans in Tel Aviv a few hours after the cold-blooded murder of Bernadotte—‘We are ready to do away with any man who succeeds him.’… Probably no other Negro ever held such an important international post.

His word is an order for 300 white officers, including generals assembled from the armed forces of the United States, France and Belgium.”

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The race of the man is the headline, and the paper counts the white officers under his command.

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