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...conflicting interests, the movers and shakers of the General Assembly were steadily working their way toward a resolution as bland as porridge. At week's end the compromise most likely to succeed appeared to be a Norwegian resolution that-in suitably vague terms-would authorize U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to "make the U.N. presence felt" in Lebanon and Jordan as a prelude to withdrawal of U.S. and British forces...
...Trip Wire. In drawing up his plan, Dag Hammarskjold had characteristically proceeded from the existing power realities in the Middle East. To begin with, he had to take into account Arab nationalism; he sought to encourage its legitimate development. He sought to create conditions of stability so that Britain and the U.S. might withdraw their troops while retaining their commercial access to the area. He recognized that while the West had no intention of securing its economic interests indefinitely by the overt use of force, neither did it intend to be deprived of those interests by force...
...long run, the chief hope that the Middle East's welter of conflicting national purposes could peaceably be reconciled lay in the establishment of a set of ground rules that would restrict political change in the Middle East to orderly, nonviolent channels. In essence, what Dag Hammarskjold was proposing was acceptance of such a set of rules and the establishment of a kind of U.N. trip wire to sound the alarm whenever anyone showed a disposition to violate them...
...real net: he was turning lukewarm about a chiefs-of-state meeting at the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council-"You know very well ... it has not decided anything so far"-instead preferred private talks. Khrushchev's guest list: the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain, France, India, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Places to go: New York, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Moscow...
...winning the big ones in the U.N. He won overwhelming U.N. endorsement of U.S. disarmament proposals despite fierce Soviet opposition. In 1954 he got a lopsided majority for a U.S. resolution to 1) condemn Red China for refusing to free 15 captured U.S. airmen, and 2) send Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to China on a mission that eventually secured the air men's freedom. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian revolt in 1956, Lodge mustered 55 votes for condemnation, even though the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt had badly blurred the issue...