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Here stood Israel's leonine David Ben-Gurion, vowing that Israel's tough little army would not give up conquered Gaza and the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba until it got guarantees that Egypt could not again use these bases to attack Israel or strangle her commerce. There sat Egypt's deep-chested Gamal Abdel Nasser, shirtsleeved before his nine telephones, a hard-pressed, unpredictable man who was hearing the arguments with unaccustomed mildness...
Israel and the U.S. 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...
...tiny (pop. 1.8 million), nine-year-old republic of Israel heard the fateful warning of the President of the U.S.: comply or face the pressure that every headline named as sanctions. "Don't surrender," cried voices in the crowd as white-haired old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking grim and tight-lipped after a hectic day of Cabinet huddles, made his way into Israel's Parliament...
...Gurion's speech was a no to President Eisenhower, but not a final...
Israel's government, Ben-Gurion said, welcomed Washington's willingness to dispatch U.S. ships through the Gulf of Aqaba to establish the right of "innocent passage," but did not consider this sufficient protection against subsequent Egyptian interference with Israel's ships-"as she openly proclaims her intention to do." For this reason, Israel would withdraw from Aqaba only if replaced by U.N. Emergency Force troops that would remain along the Gulf's shores until "peace is concluded with Egypt or until some other reliable and effective arrangement is made to this end." As for the Gaza...