Inheritor of this job was Dr. Ralph. Bunche, grandson of a slave and now acting mediator for the United Nations in Palestine.

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- Destination freedom.

- The toughest job in the year 1948, was that of mediator in the blazing dispute between the growing new nation of Israel and the Arab states of Palestine.

- Inheritor of this job was Dr. Ralph. Bunche, grandson of a slave and now acting mediator for the United Nations in Palestine.

- In a chapter entitled Peace mediator, Destination freedom tells the story of Dr. Ralph Bunche.

- He had come to the wide western edge of Asia.

- Peace plans in his pockets and the permission of the United Nations.

- He'd been told to meet his chief Count Folke Bernadotte, for a conference between Arabs and Israeli. He was a day behind his chief.

- And in the hot Palestine noon day, phoned ahead in a desperate effort to pick-up his lost time.

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