Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.'s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and the local one-sheet newspaper suggested that Bernadotte compose the quarrel. (Bernadotte was too busy.) Apart from that, all was serenity in the Dodecanese island which Bernadotte had chosen for his Palestine peace talks. Governor General Nicholas Mavris welcomed correspondents, many straight from embattled Palestine: "Now you have been able to discover an oasis of peace."
Perhaps the happiest Rhodian of all was Michael Stamatoglu,...
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