abstract:Harold Evans, a Philadelphia attorney, was appointed by the United Nations to be the first Special Municipal Commissioner for Jerusalem on May 13, 1948. Evans arrived in Cairo, Egypt on May 23, 1948, but due to his Quaker religious principles he would not travel with a British military escort from Cairo to Jerusalem.
During the testimony, Mr. Murdoch, asked about editorial independence at his papers, said HaroldEvans, former editor of The Times who left in the 1980s, once behind closed doors asked him what he wanted him to say in the paper.