Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V, Part 2

501.BB Palestine/5–2548: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Jerusalem

confidential
us urgent

Washington, May 25, 1948—1 p. m.

467. Burdett authorized informally to represent this govt on SC Truce Commission pending appointment by the President of official representative replacing Wasson.¹ Repeated to USUN as 321, Paris as 1787, Brussels as 779, London as 1898. Jerusalem repeat to Arab capitals.

Marshall

1. Consul Wasson, on his return to the Consulate General at Jerusalem from a meeting of the Security Council Truce Commission on May 22, was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet and died the next day; for Ambassador Austin’s report of May 22 on the matter, see SC, 3rd yr., Supplement for May 1948, p. 94.