On June 21, 1949, the special committee on armistice questions concerning ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM voted to transfer its functions. The Conciliation Commission’s third report circulated, and a new working paper examined absentee-property rules. The records show procedural and legal work on the war’s aftermath without establishing completed access, return or restitution.123

Which armistice responsibility changed?

The special-committee transfer moved questions to the Mixed Armistice Commission under Riley. A later official message supplies June 21 as the vote date. Roads, services and access remained matters to be negotiated. This was a change in procedure, not proof that every obligation had been implemented or that הר הצופים HAR HA’ẒOFIM was freely accessible.4

What property protections did the working paper examine?

Com.Gen/W.2 considered provisions allowing certificates of non-absentee status and release of property in particular circumstances. It proposed seeking assurances for refugees who might be admitted, and asking whether those already admitted had received such certificates. The paper analyzed existing emergency regulations; it did not enact the later 1950 Absentees’ Property Law or prove actual restitution. Admission, legal status and recovery of property were distinct questions.5

What was published or proposed today?

A/927’s June 21 circulation retained its June 13 report dateline and the recorded June 14 adoption. Washington also proposed a recess with a July 15 resumption target. The target was not a completed conference calendar. The major report study retains the three stages, while future implementation belongs to later evidence.67

What did reactions to the trial in
Budapest
establish?

JTA’s June 21 report attributed shock and objections to newly arrived refugees and unnamed sources. Claims about Dénes’s illness and passport were statements by those sources, not inspected medical or travel records. They belong with the trial coverage as reportage, without supplying a verified number of new arrivals or a reconciled verdict list.8

What did Sharett tell McDonald on June 21?

The June 22 telegram explicitly records a June 21 meeting at which משה שרת MOŜE SHARETT said peaceful routes would be exhausted but rejected remaining indefinitely quiescent if Syrian negotiations failed. McDonald’s assessment is diplomatic reporting, not a military operation order. The occurrence belongs to this June 21 recap; June 22 is its reporting date. The meeting’s precise clock is uncollated, leaving a possible after-sunset boundary to 25 Sivan. The Syrian draft study now preserves the warning within the continuing negotiation history.9

How is this dated?

This is Day 570 of the 599-day civil-date series, 1949-06-21, using its daytime route כ״ד בסיון ה׳תש״ט 24th 𝑜𝑓 Sivan, AM 5709. The recap groups developments and reportage; it does not give every discussed event this date. The transfer vote is explicitly assigned June 21 by a June 24 report in FRUS 787; its clock remains unknown and an after-sunset vote would belong to 25 Sivan. A/927’s circulation heading, Com.Gen/W.2 and the JTA issue are June 21 documentary dates. The daily daytime route is 24 Sivan. No later acceptance, recess implementation or law is backdated.101112

The newly reconciled Sharett warning occurred June 21 according to the opening of a June 22 telegram. Its meeting clock is absent, preserving 25 Sivan as a sunset alternative; the report date does not move the conversation into Day 571.13

Guided reflections

  • Why can admission of a refugee leave property status unresolved?
  • Which dates distinguish the report’s preparation from its circulation?

Footnotes

  1. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 787, FRUS 787, note reporting June 21 vote. ↩
  2. United Nations, A/927, A/927 circulation heading. ↩
  3. United Nations, A/AC.25/Com.Gen/W.2, Com.Gen/W.2 date. ↩
  4. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 787, Footnote 3 and terms of reference. ↩
  5. United Nations, A/AC.25/Com.Gen/W.2, Paragraphs 8–16. ↩
  6. United Nations, A/927, Circulation heading and dateline. ↩
  7. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 784, FRUS 784, proposed resumption. ↩
  8. JTA, Jews in Hungary Receive Verdict Against Hungarian Zionist Leaders with Bitterness, Attributed reactions and passport claim. ↩
  9. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 785, FRUS 785, opening and security warning. ↩
  10. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 787, Footnote 3. ↩
  11. United Nations, A/927, Heading. ↩
  12. United Nations, A/AC.25/Com.Gen/W.2, Document date. ↩
  13. FRUS 1949, vol. VI, document 785, FRUS 785, opening. ↩

Works cited

  1. United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949. Vol. VI. Document 787. Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d787. Accessed October 11, 2026.
  2. United Nations. A/927. Third progress report. Lausanne dateline June 13, 1949; adoption June 14; circulation June 21. English UN-hosted reproduction; original language French. https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/4A5EF29A5E977E2E852561010079E43C.pdf. Accessed October 11, 2026.
  3. United Nations. A/AC.25/Com.Gen/W.2. Working paper on emergency regulations concerning absentee property. June 21, 1949. Hosted English text. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-210618/. Accessed October 11, 2026.
  4. United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949. Vol. VI. Document 784. Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d784. Accessed October 11, 2026.
  5. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Jews in Hungary Receive Verdict Against Hungarian Zionist Leaders with Bitterness. Historical archive, dated issue. Historical archive transcription. https://www.jta.org/archive/jews-in-hungary-receive-verdict-against-hungarian-zionist-leaders-with-bitterness. Accessed October 11, 2026.
  6. United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949. Vol. VI. Document 785. Office of the Historian. Hosted text with editorial notes; occurrence, telegram, cited later report and publication remain separate. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d785. Accessed October 11, 2026.