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  • 5 - The “Question of Palestine” at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Special Session: April–May 1947

  • Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    Israel's Moment
    Published online:
    13 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 131-152

  • Summary

    In May and April 1947 the first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly met to address “the question of Palestine.” This chapter examines the UN records that document the emphatic support for the Jewish Agency by the Polish representative, Alfred Fiderkiewicz, and the Soviet representative, Andrei Gromyko; the neutral tones of US representative Warren Austin; statements by Jewish Agency representative Moshe Shertok, and the Arab League’s Emile Ghoury; the formation of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP); and criticism by American liberals of the Truman administration’s policy at this UN session