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Howard Kennedy (Canadian Army officer)

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Howard Kennedy was UNRWA's first Director from 1950 to 1951. He was a former Major-General in the Canadian Army.[1]

Kennedy was a leading engineer in Ottawa before World War II. Joining the Canadian Army in 1939, he rose to be Quartermaster-General in 1943–44.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Benjamin N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 292
  2. ^ J. L. Granatstein, The generals: the Canadian army's senior commanders in the Second World War, University of Calgary Press, 2005, p.206
Positions in intergovernmental organisations
New office Director for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
May 1950–June 1951
Succeeded by