High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Stanley Grauel (1917 Worcester, Massachusetts, USA - Sep., 1986 Roosevelt, New Jersey, USA) was a Methodist Minister and American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the famed refugee ship the "SS Exodus"-1947, secret "Haganah"- operative, credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of Israel. "Golda Meir"--in a speech to the Jewish Agency, referred to his testimony as the first appeal by a “priest, a perfectly worthy gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be believed,” and because of this, his graphic account became a turning point in the attitudes of the U.N. representatives.