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Herald and Review · 27 September 1948

CP-1948-057

U. S. Negro Ignores Threats In Palestine Mediator Role

The Associated Press, Haifa, Palestine

U. S. Negro Ignores Threats In Palestine Mediator Role — Herald and Review, 27 September 1948
Herald and Review · 27 September 1948

Transcribed from the clipping

“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… 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.”

Context added by this archive

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

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"U. S. Negro Ignores Threats In Palestine Mediator Role," Herald and Review, 27 September 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-057. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-057

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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