{"id":212138,"date":"1948-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=212138"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:17:56","slug":"auto-insert-212138","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212138\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Palestine Commission – Food supplies for Palestine – Letter from United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11 May 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

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UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION<\/p><\/div>\n

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Communication Received from United Kingdom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Delegation Concerning Food Supplies for<\/p><\/div>\n

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Palestine<\/p><\/div>\n

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The following communication, concerning arrangements made by the United Kingdom Government with Messrs. Steel Brothers for the purchase of food supplies for Palestine, has been received from Mr. J. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n

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Empire State Building, New York 1, N.Y.<\/p><\/div>\n

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10th May 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

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My dear Bunche<\/p><\/div>\n

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May I refer <\/span>to <\/span>my letter of 30th April<\/a>  <\/span>regarding a communication sent to Steel Brothers, Haifa on the 26th April.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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I have been asked to bring to the notice of the Commission that His Majesty’s Government reserves the right to off-set any amounts remitted by Steel Brothers to the Crown Agents for the Colonies (in accordance with the instructions contained in the communication referred to above) against funds advanced to the Government of Palestine for food purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Finn Moe, rapporteur of the Sub-Committee of the 1st Committee of the General Assembly.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yours sincerely,<\/p><\/div>\n

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J. Fletcher-Cooke (signed)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Ralph Bunche<\/p><\/div>\n

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Principal Secretary to the<\/p><\/div>\n

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United Nations Commission on Palestine <\/p><\/div>\n

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United Nations, Lake Success, L.I.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 May 1948 UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION Communication Received from United Kingdom Delegation Concerning Food Supplies for Palestine The following communication, concerning arrangements made by the United Kingdom Government with Messrs. Steel Brothers for the purchase of food supplies for Palestine, has been received from Mr. J. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation. UNITED KINGDOM […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2321],"document-category":[3333,2841],"document-source":[1365,3357],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1937,2057,4317,1749,2741],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-212138","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-kingdom","document-category-communication","document-category-letter","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-united-nations-palestine-commission-unpc","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-food","document-subject-governance","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/212138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/212138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=212138"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=212138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}