Word: chehab
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Convoyed from his native coastal village by a task force of rifle-slung motorcyclists and troop-filled jeeps, Major General Fuad Chehab rode to his inauguration as Lebanon's new president through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
Ignoring the tension, the new President called on his countrymen to work with him for the "reestablishment of government authority" and "above all, the speedy evacuation of foreign forces." A Christian elected with Moslem support, Chehab pledged himself to uphold "the unwritten constitution." This was the 1943 compact in which Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities agreed that Moslems would refrain from urging merger with other Arab states, Christians would hold back from aligning the country too closely with any Western power...
Hammarskjold's mission looked better in Lebanon-but largely because Lebanon's crisis seemed to be quieting down. The incoming regime of President-elect Fuad Chehab had gained wide internal backing. But neither Chehab nor President Camille Chamoun could give any commitments. No U.N. presence was established to permit all U.S. troops to withdraw, though last week the U.S. pulled out 2,000 more marines...
...world. Such was his prestige that last week Morocco and even his old rival, Bourguiba of Tunisia, felt compelled to join the Arab League. In the new Arab order taking shape after the Iraqi revolt, only Jordan and Lebanon had lined up against Nasser, and the Lebanon that elected Chehab was already trending back to the old Lebanese position of neutrality among Arabs. If Hammarskjold is undiplomatically candid when he makes his report to the U.N. Assembly later this month, he could report that the problem of the Middle East is still the problem of Nasser...
...indeed done a remarkable job. Among his major achievements: 1) by urging a positive, performance-over-propaganda U.S. program for the Middle East, he contributed directly to the policies set forth in the President's U.N. speech; 2) by rallying rival Lebanese parties behind compromise President-elect Fuad Chehab, he arranged a shaky sort of cease-fire and brought a promise of political order to Lebanon; 3) he shrewdly impressed Arab leaders, both friendly and hostile, with the key fact that the U.S. had shown itself able and willing to help its friends in the Middle East-while...