The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine announced here officially today the appointment of Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as its special representative for a visit to the Middle East. Dr. Johnson’s task, according to the Commission, will be “to explore with the host governments and with Israel practical means of seeking progress on the Palestine Arab Refugee problem.”
Dr. Johnson, who is head of the Carnegie Peace organization since 1950, is a historian with degrees from Harvard University, From 1942 to 1947, he served in the U.S. Department of State and participated in various international conferences that led to and launched the formation of the United Nations. Later, Dr. Johnson served in other capacities with the State Department. For three years prior to assuming the presidency of the Carnegie Endowment, he was president of Williams College.
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