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Former Truce Supervisor Addresses UN Secretariat Staff

27 July 1953

Lieutenant General William E. Riley today gave an address to members of the United Nations staff at Headquarters regarding his experiences in connection with the supervision of the truce and implementation of the four armistice agreements between Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria on the one hand, and Israel on the other. General Riley served as U.N. Chief of Staff in charge of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine from October 1948 to June of this year.
This photograph shows General Riley (left) with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld just before beginning his talk.

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