Lionel Gelber of Toronto, Canada, writer and authority on international and British Commonwealth affairs, has been appointed political advisor to the Jewish Agency for Palestine in the United States, it was announced today. Mr. Gelber, who retired in 1945 from the Royal Canadian Air Force with the rank of Flight Lieutenant, was formerly on the faculty of the University of Toronto.
Born in Toronto, educated at Upper Canada College and at the University of Toronto, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, and lived for a number of years in England. He is the author of a standard historical work, “The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship,” and of “Peace by Power,” both published by the Oxoford University Press.
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