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Count Folke Bernadotte<br />
1946-1948<br />
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Count Folke Bernadotte was elected as Chairman of the Standing Commission in 1948,<br />
however he was assassinated on September 17 th 1948 by the armed Jewish Zionist group<br />
Lehi. 38 Before being elected to the Standing Commission, he was chosen to step in as its<br />
Chairman from 1946 till 1948 when Sir Arthur Stanley retired. Prior to joining the Red Cross<br />
Movement, he represented his native Sweden in numerous capacities. He was the Director<br />
of the Swedish Boy Scouts (1937) the Swedish Commissioner General at the New York<br />
World’s Fair (1939-1940). Later in 1943, he was appointed as the Vice-President of the<br />
Swedish Red Cross. During the Second World War, he was involved in the organisation of<br />
prisoner exchanges. In so doing, he had to interview Heinrich Himmler, one of Adolf Hitler’s<br />
most feared henchmen. After World War Two he took up the post of mediator for the<br />
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