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On December 8, 1949, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 302 (IV). It expressed the organization’s “gratitude to the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the League of Red Cross Societies and to the American Friends Service Committee for the contribution they have made to this humanitarian cause by discharging, in the face of great difficulties, the responsibility they voluntarily assumed for the distribution of relief supplies and the general care of the refugees; and welcomes the assurance they have given the Secretary-General that they will continue their co-operation with the United Nations until the end of March 1950 on a mutually acceptable basis.”1
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FRUS 1950, Vol. V, Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asia, and Africa Affairs (McGhee), January 11, 1950, 681–682. Compare United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, A/AC.25/W.81/Rev.2 of 2 October 1961, Historical Survey of Efforts of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine to Secure the Implementation of Paragraph 11 of General Assembly Resolution 194 (III), 23–24. See also Michael R. Fischbach, The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006);
M.R. Fischbach, “Palestinian Refugee Compensation and Israeli Counterclaims for Jewish Property in Arab Countries,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 38 (2008): 6–24.
Slightly over one month later, at the beginning of March 1950, the Iraqi Parliament and Regent authorised a bill that denaturalized any Jews who chose to leave Iraq. See Moshe Gat, “Between Terror and Emigration: The Case of Iraqi Jewry,” Israel Affairs 7 (2000): 1–2.
AFSC 1950. Donald Stevenson to Bronson Clark, March 4, 1950. See generally Arnon Golan, “Postwar Spatial Reorganization: The Resettlement of Greek Refugees, 1922–1930” in Population Resettlement in International Conflicts: A Comparative Study, eds. A. M. Kacowicz and P. Lutomski (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), 21–40.
Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., “Partition of Palestine: A Lesson in Pressure Politics,” Middle East Journal 2 (1948):1–16. For the Institute for Arab American Affairs generally H. J. Bawardi, “Arab American Political Organizations from 1915 to 1951: Assessing Transnational Political Consciousness and the Development of Arab American Identity,” (doctoral dissertation, Wayne State University, 2009);
Eliezer Tauber, “The Jewish and Arab Lobbies in Canada and the UN Partition of Palestine,” Israel Affairs 5, no. 4 (1999): 229–244.
Robert Kaplan, The Arabists, The Romance of an American Elite (New York: Free Press, 1993), 80.
New York Times, “American Zionists Warned on Tactics,” June 18, 1948, p. 15; New York Times, “Expansion by War Held Israel’s Aim,” August 1, 1948, p. 45. For Roosevelt’s cooperation with leading British anti-Zionist Sir Edward Spears see Rory Miller, “Sir Edward Spears’ Jewish Problem: A Leading Anti-Zionist and His Relationship with Anglo-Jewry, 1945–1948,” Journal of lsraeli History 19, no. 1 (1998): 57–58.
Thomas A. Kolsky, Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942–1948 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), 184.
Eddy was born to Presbyterian missionaries in Lebanon. After military service in World War I he taught at the American University of Cairo and was later President of Hobart College. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s translator during his meeting with Saudi Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. See Thomas Lippman, Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East (Vista, CA: Selwa Press, 2008); Cohen, “William A. Eddy.”
Robert M. Miller, Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 192. See also Fishman, American Protestantism, 101–107;
Ofira Seliktar, Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), 13;
Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 236–237.
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Romirowsky, A., Joffe, A.H. (2013). The AFSC and UNRWA: The End of UNRPR. In: Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378170_8
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