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Jews in Old City surrender; Jewish qr in ruins; synagogues wrecked; legion shells Haganah near Sheikh Jarrah; 5-mos siege revd; illus
UN truce comm repts new threats to shrines as result of reptd Hurva Synagogue destruction; Israel reptd threatening reprisals; A Parodi urges UN action
WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur declined today to return voluntarily to the United States before the Republican National Convention on the ground that it would be condemned by many as politically inspired.
State Dept repr J D Jernegan pleads, Sen Appropriations Com, for US mil supplies shipments; says intended items are all non-aggressive weapons
strike ends; 13c flat rise granted; locals urged to ratify pact
1948Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host[ā ]
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, is an English composer, broadcaster on music and non-party political member of the House of Lords, speaking as an advocate for the arts, contemporary music and music education.
1948Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic[ā ]
Professor Keith Gull is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was the principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2018, succeeding Michael Mingos.
1948United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.[ā ]
The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East. Established amidst the 1948 ArabāIsraeli War, its primary task was initially to provide the military command structure to the peacekeeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peacekeepers to observe and maintain the ceasefire, and in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements. The organization's structure and role has evolved over time as a result of the various conflicts in the region and at times UNTSO personnel have been used to rapidly deploy to other areas of the Middle East in support of other United Nations operations. The command structure of the UNTSO was maintained to cover the later peacekeeping organisations of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to which UNTSO continues to provide military observers.