501.BB Palestine/7–648: Telegram
The Acting United States Representative at the United Nations (Jessup) to the Secretary of State
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907. Remytel 900, July 16.1 Note dated 17 July from SYG to Acting US Representative to [re] SC Palestine resolution of July 15 states the following:
“The SYG has the honor to inform the Acting Representative that the UN mediator, in carrying out the instructions of the SC, has notified him that, in the light of the mediator’s experience, he will require 300 military observers to assist him in the supervision of the truce provided for in that resolution. The mediator has accordingly asked the SYG to request the US Government to place at his disposition 125 military observers of appropriate seniority and experience to assist him in the supervision of the truce. He has indicated that he would need the services of these observers at his headquarters on the island of Rhodes beginning Sunday morning, 18 July 1948. He has also indicated that after further examination of the situation he may inform the SYG of requirements of non-officer personnel to assist the observers.”
We would appreciate Department’s earliest instructions regarding reply.
- Not printed; it summarized Mr. Jessup’s discussions with Count Bernadotte, the French and Belgian Representatives at the United Nations, and other United Nations officials concerning the Mediator’s needs in carrying out the truce in Palestine (501.BB Palestine/7–1648). New York, at 11:51 p. m., July 16, transmitted the pertinent sections of a note verbale from Secretary-General Lie making known the Mediator’s requirements of equipment and technical personnel (telegram 904, 501.BB Palestine/7–1648).↩