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...Israelis must not expect the U.S. to say so too explicitly. So began a semantic battle requiring a conditioned Israel withdrawal involving what could not be described as conditions. The happy substitute that emerged was the word assumptions. On Feb. 11 John Foster Dulles handed Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban an aide-memoire. As soon as Israel pulled out, Dulles said, the U.S. would 1) itself proclaim the right of innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids...
...could talk. The U.N.'s own tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended-to stand on his demand...
Israeli's Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Ambassador Abba Eban met today with Dulles and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 25--Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel was reported tonight to have returned from Jerusalem without any compromise plan for solving the Israeli-Egyptian deadlock...
...that end it was necessary to get the Israelis to clear out of Egypt and stop defying the U.N. As an inducement to the Israelis to cooperate, John Foster Dulles made them what seemed a good offer. As soon as Israel pulled back its troops, he told Ambassador Abba Eban, the U.S. would 1) itself underwrite Israel's right to free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids on Israel...