carried out ten years later as part of an officially conducted "Operation Susannah," which was at the centre of the so-called Lavon Affair. Members of the Stern Gang murdered Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator, in Jerusalem on 17 September 1948, carrying out a plan authorised by a three-man committee that included Yitzhak Shamir, a future Israeli prime minister. In 1975 the remains of the murderers of Lord Moyne were sent from Egypt to Israel, where they received a hero's burial. 10. See, for example, the Australian Associated Press-Reuters story "Cairo Inquiry into Killing," The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 13 December 1977. p. 4. 11. Hirst's analysis of Sadat's reign is contained in the book he wrote with fellow correspondent Irene Beeson, Sadat (London: Faber and Faber, 1981). 12. Copies of Holden's book were in fact presented as gifts to various Western individuals, agencies, and organisations by members of the Saud family. The copy used in preparing this memoir, for example, as testified by a book-plate, was a gift to the Arab-British Centre in London from Prince Turki ibn Muhammad ibn Fahd ibn 'Abd-ul-Aziz al-Saud, one of the more prominent princes, in June 1983. 1924 births 1977 deaths 1977 murders in Egypt People from Sunderland Writers from Tyne and Wear English male journalists English biographers British people murdered abroad Deaths by firearm in Egypt Journalists killed in Egypt People murdered in Egypt Assassinated British journalists Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 20th-century biographers 20th-century English male writers Northwestern University alumni British expatriates in the United States Male biographers British expatriates in Mexico British expatriates in Egypt