501.BB Palestine/7–1948: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the United Nations Mediator in Palestine (Bernadotte), at Rhodes
Please be assured that the United States will assist you in every practicable way in the execution of your heavy responsibilities.1 Orders have already been issued to place immediately at your disposal the assistance furnished by us during the earlier cease-fire in June. Our observer personnel should now be arriving in Rhodes. We are giving urgent attention to the possibility of sending additional observers and equipment and will communicate with you shortly on this point. We wish you success in the performance of your most difficult and important task.
- This telegram was in response to an undated telegram from Rhodes, in which Count Bernadotte had made an urgent appeal to Secretary Marshall for 125 observers and needed equipment. The telegram was received in the Department on July 19 (501.BB Palestine/7–1948).↩