oseph B. Keenan was sworn in this morning as United States representative on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine by Stanley Woodward, State Department Chief of Protocol.
The ceremony, which took place in Woodward’s office, was attended by Joseph G. Satterthwaite, director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs; Dean Rusk, director of the State Department Office of United Nations Affairs; Robert M. McClintock, special assistant to Rusk; Fraser Wilkins, acting assistant chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs; Samuel Kopper, advisor on United Nations affairs, and Stuart Rockwell, Palestine desk officer.
Keenan said after the ceremony that plans had hot been completed for his leaving for his post and for selecting the place where he would meet the French and Turkish representatives of the Conciliation Commission. Asked if he is hopeful about the possibility of achieving a solution in the Palestine problem, he replied “I’m always optimistic.”
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