Word: hammarskiold
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Suez. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold flew to Cairo to discuss release of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, seized by his Suez Canal officials last May for carrying Israeli cement and potash destined for Hong Kong and Tokyo. On the morning of Hammarskiold's arrival, Nasser's Al Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou...
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