Office of the Historian

501.BB/4–1348

Document Prepared in the Office of United Nations Affairs

[Washington,] April 13, 1948.

Organization of the United States Delegation to the Second Special Session of the General Assembly1

Representatives

  • Warren R. Austin
  • Francis B. Sayre
  • Philip C. Jessup

Alternate Representatives

  • John C. Ross2
  • Dean Rusk3

Advisers4

  • *Frank P. Corrigan
  • Donald C. Blaisdell
  • William I. Cargo
  • Benjamin Gerig
  • Raymond A. Hare
  • John E. Horner
  • *Gordon Knox
  • Samuel K. C. Kopper
  • Thomas J. Maleady
  • Robert M. McClintock
  • Paul W. Meyer
  • *Charles P. Noyes
  • G. Hayden Raynor
  • Fraser Wilkins
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Executive Officer

  • Donald C. Blaisdell

Assistant

  • Betty Gough

Secretary-General

  • †Richard S. Winslow

Deputy Secretary-General

  • †Thomas F. Power, Jr.

Press Officer

  • † Porter McKeever

Assistant Press Officers

  • † Gilbert Stewart
  • † David Wilson
  1. The Second Special Session of the General Assembly, meeting at New York, April 16–May 14, 1948, was convened to consider the Palestine problem. Also, it was at this time (April 19) that the Union of Burma was admitted to membership in the United Nations Organization.↩
  2. John C. Ross was Deputy to the United States Representative at the United Nations. This position is not to be confused with that of Deputy United States Representative at the United Nations, which at this time had not yet been established.↩
  3. Dean Rusk was Director of the Office of United Nations Affairs, Department of State.↩
  4. The Advisory Staff were officers of the Department of State unless otherwise designated.↩
  5. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  6. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  7. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  8. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  9. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  10. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  11. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  12. Staff of United States Mission to the United Nations. [Footnote in the source text.]↩