Editorial Note
John J. Macdonald, as Chairman of the Palestine Truce Commission, sent a cablegram to the President of the Security Council on September 30, which reported that a deliberate Jewish campaign to discredit the Truce Commission and Acting Mediator Bunche was apparently developing along the lines of the attack launched against Count Bernadotte. For the text of the cablegram, see SC, 3rd yr., Supplement for October 1948, page 48.
An Israeli spokesman, the following day, described this message as a “figment of the imagination” and alleged the Truce Commission seemed to be “trying to discredit the Jewish authorities.” He also denounced the “persistent unfriendly attitude” of the Commission in its decisions and statements. (Telegram 1365, October 6, from Jerusalem, 501.BB Palestine/10–648.)