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BERNADOTTE IN PALESTINE, 1948 Bohdan Krawchenko SOCIAL CHANGE AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY UKRAINE Robert H. McNeal STALIN: MAN AND RULER TSAR AND COSSACK, 1855-1914 Arnii Omara-Otunnu POLITICS AND THE MILITARY IN UGANDA, 1890-1985 Han Pappe BRITAIN AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1948-51 J. L. Porket WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION Alex Pravda (editor) HOW RULING COMMUNIST PARTIES ARE GOVERNED H. Gordon Skilling SAMIZDAT AND AN INDEPENDENT SOCIETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE J. A. A. Stockwin, Alan Rix, Aurelia George, James Home, Daichi Ito, Martin Gollich DYNAMIC AND IMMOBILIST POLITICS IN JAPAN Verena Stokke COFFEE PLANTERS, WORKERS AND WIVES Jane E. Stromseth THE ORIGINS OF FLEXIBLE RESPONSE Jane Watts BLACK WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Robert Wihtol THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Philip J. 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Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948 A Study in Contemporary Humanitarian Knight-Errantry AMITZUR ILAN Lecturer in Modern Jewish History University of Natal, South Africa Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-10429-1 ISBN 978-1-349-10427-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10427-7 © Amitzur llan 1989 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1989 978-0-333-47274-3 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Referenee Division, St. Martin's Press, Ine., 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N.Y.10010 First published in the United States of Ameriea in 1989 ISBN 978-0-312-03259-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publieation Data Ilan, Amitzur, 1932- Bemadotte in Palestine, 1948: a study in eontemporary humanitarian knight-errantry / Amitzur Ilan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical referenees. ISBN 978-0-312-03259-3 1. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949-Diplomatie history. 2. Bemadotte, Folke, 1895-1948. 3. Diplomats-Sweden-Biography. I. Title. DS126.92.152 1989 956.04'2-dc20 89-10644 CIP To Tal, Uriel and Yoron Table of Contents Page List of Illustrations IX Major Sources and Abbreviations XI Preface xv Maps xviii Introduction 1 A Slow Maturity 7 2 Fame and Contention: Bernadotte's Rescue Mission in Germany 25 3 To Jerusalem 49 4 His Finest Hour: The Attainment ofthe First Truce 73 5 The First Truce: The Failure of Supervision 99 6 A Solution too Early: The First Bernadotte Plan and its Consequences 125 7 The Second Truce: Recovery and Disintegration 145 8 An Attempted Conspiracy: The Second Bernadotte Plan 177 9 The Assassination of the Mediator 193 Vlll 10 Palestine after Bernadotte 223 Conclusion 249 Notes 257 Select Bibliography 297 Index 303 List of Illustrations 1. Bernadotte and Estelle at La Guardia airport. (Zionist Archives) 2. A KLM chartered DC3 plane, after being repainted according to Bernadotte's wish at Le Bourget airport. (UN Bulletin) 3. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, says goodbye to the forty-nine UN Guards hurried to Palestine on 19 June. (UN Bulletin) 4. Colonel Brunsson with Colonels Tel and Shaltiel during discussions about improving the lines, mid-June, 1948. (Zionist Archives) 5. Bernadotte and Glubb Pasha in the Arab Legion headquarters. (Zionist Archives) 6. Bernadotte arrives in New York to meet with the Security Council after the collapse of the first truce. On his right is Estelle; behind him are Bunche and Stavropoulos, Mrs Wessel and Mrs Daughton. (UN Bulletin) 7. Bernadotte speaks before the Security Council, 13 July, 1948. On his right is Khouri; on his left are Bunche, Lie, Manuilsky and Cadogan. (UN Bulletin) 8. With Philip Jessup of the United States UN delegation before departing for Rhodes, 16 July 1948. (Zionist Archives) 9. (below) Bernadotte with 'the youngest diplomat in the UN', Israel's unofficial representative, Abba Eban, 15 July, 1948. (UN Bulletin) 10. Bernadotte with the Rotating President of the Security Council, Manuilsky of the Ukraine, 13 July, 1948. (UN Bulletin) II. (below) Bernadotte speaks to Syria's Faris el Khouri (centre). (Zionist Archives) 12. (above) At the Zion Hotel, Haifa (left to right) General Lundstrom, Reedman, Bernadotte, Mohn, Bunche, Mrs Daughton. (Zionist Archives) x Illustrations 13. (below) LHIjeep demonstrations in Talbiya quarter of Jerusalem to give Bernadotte 'a last warning', 10 August. (Zionist Archives) 14. Sir Ralph Cilento (left) discusses relief of Arab refugees with Dr John Kirk of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, mid-September 1948. (UN Bulletin) 15. Taking over from Bernadotte (from left to right) Dr Bunche, General Stoner and Colonel Hays. (UN Bulletin) Photographs from the UN Bulletin are reproduced by permission of the UN Photo Library.
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