Ira Hirschmann becomes the Board’s first overseas representative! He’s still on his way to Turkey.  He left at the end of January, but he has to go to Miami, then Brazil, to a few cities moving east across North Africa, then Jerusalem. He’s somewhere between Cairo and Jerusalem when he gets appointed. This is the cable with his official instructions.  The most important thing on here is the last paragraph, section 5. Hirschmann had “full authority to communicate with enemy territory to carry out the purpose of the Order” and could grant that authority to others. That’s the clause that turns Hirschmann from just another diplomatic advisor to someone who held some power.