Two officials of the U.S. State Department will join the three-nation U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission as advisors until the United States names a new delegate to replace Joseph Reenan, whom President Truman appointed to the Commission and who resigned last week because of family reasons.
An announcement issued here tonight said that the two American advisors will be John W. Halderman, assistant chief of the Division of International Organization Affairs of the State Department, and Fraser Wilkins, of the Department’s Near Eastern and African Division.
The Commission, on which France and Turkey are the other two members, held its second organizational meeting here today. The Commission will move tomorrow to its permanent headquarters in Jerusalem regardless of whether the American delegate has arrived, Reuters reported.
The President of the Conciliation Commission advised the U.N. Security Council that acting U.N. Palestine mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche may continue in his position “to the end of the Rhodes negotiations,” which are now taking place with a view toward bringing about an Israeli-Egyptian armistice.
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