Quaker, Jerusalem's Mayor
Received Friday, 7 p.m. 'NEW YORK, May 13.' Mr. Harrold Evans, presiding clerk of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) has been appointed Muninipal 'Commissioner oi Jerusalem. Senor Pablo Azcarte, head of the United Xations adyance party in Palestine, will act as Commissioner until Mr. Evans 's arrival. Mr. Evans is a lawyer and has had a long record as administrator in Pennsylvanian State affairs. He has been a member of the American Friends' ■ Service Committee since 1917. He has never been in Palestine. I Tbe Colonial Under-Secretary (Mr. j Rees Wiliiams) announced in the l Commons last- mgnt that the Arab J League had accepted the British pro- | posals for a Jerusalem truce. No ; reply had yet come from the Jews, i hut both sides agreed to the appointj ment of Mr. Evans as special Muni- ! cipal Commissioner for the city.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 May 1948, Page 5
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