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...days earlier the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold had abruptly issued a warning that the Middle East situation was again "deteriorating." The origins of the flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village...
...palace in steamy Vientiane one day last week, handsome King Savang Vatthana of Laos stared thoughtfully at a freshly opened cable from U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I permit myself," wired Hammarskjold, "to express the hope that the line of independent neutrality . . . will be firmly maintained." Twenty-four hours later, with full approval of the U.S. State Department, King Savang Vatthana quietly overthrew the "pro-Western" army group that fortnight ago tumbled the government of ex-Premier Phoui Sananikone (TIME...
...Dag Hammarskjold, seeing an opportunity to exert the U.N.'s tranquilizing influence, was quick to turn the U.S. dilemma to account. With U.S. blessing-and only pro forma Russian protests-Hammarskjold, on his own, sent Finland's Sakari Tuomioja to provide a U.N. "presence" in Laos and to look into ways of bringing U.N. help to the Laotian economy. The unspoken condition of U.N. intervention-Laotian neutrality-struck the U.S. as a reasonable price to pay for peace in Southeast Asia...
Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge, all had words of good wishes, and one, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov of the U.S.S.R., was happy to bring news that Moscow would promptly recognize the new nation...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold thereupon flew out to see Nasser, reported back to the Israelis that Cairo would have no objections to letting cargoes pass in future if title to Israeli exports had already passed to foreign purchasers, and if imports were not yet technically Israeli-owned. Israel disliked this compromise, but observed it. Last week a Greek freighter fulfilling Hammarskjold's conditions-Israeli cement purchased f.o.b. Haifa by an Eritrean importer-was stopped in Port Said. Hammarskjold's own prestige and assurances were thus at stake. As Hammarskjold set off on a tour of Africa, he scheduled...