"Murder Most Foul" by Paul Kihn

Years ago my old friend Paul Kihn, gave me his manuscripts shortly before he passed away. He was a great poet. His poems are relevant to the times he lived in.

Murder Most Foul. 20/9/1948

High on Golgota's hill,
Crowned with thorns,
The Prince of Peace
Pierced with nails to a cross,
Was lifted high,
And the heavens were riven,
And darkness fell.

Now,
This other son of peace,
Bernadotte, to whom death came
Dastardly and with shame
Lies dead
In the city of peace.

But unleash no sword
Nor let any banners of battle
Be unfurled.
For the guilt and the blame
Lie heavily on the world.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Folke Bernadotte
Born	2 January 1895 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	17 September 1948 (aged 53) West Jerusalem, de facto Israel
Resting place	Northern Cemetery, Solna
Title	Count of Wisborg
Spouse(s)	Estelle Romaine Manville (1928–1948) (his death)
Children	Gustaf Eduard Bernadotte of Wisborg Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg Fredrik Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg Count Bertil Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg
Parent(s)	Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg Ebba Munck af Fulkila

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (Swedish: Greve af Wisborg; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman. During World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945.^[1][2][3] In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.

After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in theArab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the militant Zionist group Lehiwhile pursuing his official duties. The decision to assassinate him had been made by Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad, and Yitzhak Shamir, who later became Prime Minister of Israel. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, but was removed from the post around six months after Bernadotte was assassinated, at the critical period of recognition of the fledgling state.