Editorial Note
Count Bernadotte, in an undated telegram to Secretary Marshall from Geneva, received in the Department on August 16, made a plea for assistance to Arab and Jewish refugees, noting that successful mediation might continue only if a solution were found for the most urgent aspects of their human disaster.
The Secretary of State replied on August 20 that the Department was working “to determine what can be done quickly and practically.” The reply was transmitted via telegram 622 to Stockholm, which was repeated to Arab capitals, Jerusalem, and New York. For the full text of the exchange of telegrams, see Department of State Bulletin, August 29, 1948, pages 266, 267.