On 17th September 1948 the UN’s ENVOY in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte and Colonel Andre Serot of the French Army, serving with the UN were murdered In Jerusalem. Both bodies were flown to Paris, Bernadotte’s en route to Stockholm.
At the airport to pay their respects were the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Secretary of State of the United States, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister of Canada and senior French politicians.
Somehow their successors in office seem unaware of the event.
Luckily, Pathé News was there to capture the Paris reception. It is still available (as I write this) on YOUTUBE. I hope some of you will record it before it disappears into a black hole.
The late Gore Vidal described his country as THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA. I’m afraid that historical amnesia is a popular epidemic.
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