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...conservative banker "committed to the future," sunnily predicted that the national incomes of the U.S. and Western European nations would double "in just over 20 years." In the Middle East Egypt's aggressive Prime Minister Nasser and Israel's combative Ben-Gurion both promised U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to enforce a ceasefire along the Gaza strip and the Negev. In London the touring Russians, Khrushchev and Bulganin (or Bim and Bom, in the oblique language of Russian jokesters), got the kind of social, personal and diplomatic chill that only the British can apply (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Until last week the threat of war hung over the Middle East, even though all parties to the crisis protested that they did not want war. It took the skilled diplomacy of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold last week to get their protestations in writing. Result: a cease-fire along the bloody Israeli-Egyptian border and a promising stillness spreading across the Middle East...
...making peace (even though it may only be temporary) Dag Hammarskjold had the enthusiastic backing of the U.S., which sponsored the U.N. resolution to create his mission. In midweek the U.N. Secretary-General received further timely help from an unexpected source. The Russian Foreign Office suddenly announced that it shared President Eisenhower's conviction that the great powers should jointly seek Middle East peace through the U.N. Naturally the Russians had reasons of their own. They had been willing to help Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser with arms in order to create mischief, but pulled back when...
Subtle, courtly, now puckishly smiling, now coldly decisive, pausing to tell Swedish jokes, dodging irrelevant emotionalisms by declaring, "Let me discuss this as a lawyer," Dag Hammarskjold negotiated adroitly with Ben-Gurion. Before he left for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, he had the assurance of a cease-fire on 165 miles of Israel's borders, to match the promise he had received from Nasser the week before (TIME, April 23). He had talked out Ben-Gurion's objections to stronger U.N. border patrols. He had taken a step toward his third objective, which is formulating some sort...
Despite the depths of hatred in the Middle East, the conviction spread at week's end that both Egypt and Israel would find an advantage in pledging good behavior to Dag Hammarskjold. But how long would such a guarantee last? The British believe that the eventual danger is from Egypt, once it has absorbed and mastered its Communist weapons, but that the immediate threat is from an Israel tempted to start something before that day comes...