United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has chosen Col. Carl von Horn, commander of the Malmoe defense area of Sweden, to be the next chief of staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine, it was announced here yesterday. Formal announcement of the appointment will wait until next month when Col. von Horn is scheduled to be promoted to Major General and released by Sweden for UN duty.
Col. von Horn will succeed Lt.Gen. E. L. M. Burns, currently commander of the UN Emergency Force in Gaza and chief of UNTSO. The acting chief of staff of UNTSO is Col. Byron V. Leary, an American Marine Corps officer. (In Jerusalem today, the Foreign Ministry announced that it had already been informed of the appointment of Col. von Horn to succeed Gen. Burns.)
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