John Blandford Jr.

John Blandford Jr. was the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East's second Director from 1951 to 1953. Blandford served as chairman of the UNRWA Advisory Commission before becoming director of UNRWA. Blandford had been deputy chief of U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Greece and a consultant to president Harry Truman on the Marshall Plan.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Benjamin N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 292.
Positions in intergovernmental organisations
Preceded by
Howard Kennedy (Canada)		 Commissioner-General for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
July, 1951–20 March 1953		 Succeeded by
Henry Labouisse United States)
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