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...implication they went far beyond U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who recently suggested that "an appreciable proportion" of Europe's power needs could be met by better integration of hydroelectric and other conventional power sources. Europe today abounds in such schemes, including one for an interchange of electricity between Britain and France by submarine cable (Britain's peak load occurs at 8 a.m., France's at noon). Even if all these schemes were exploited to the fullest, warned the three experts, the six European nations would have to double their fuel imports within ten years, treble them...
That evening, as Jackson cleared the northern end of the canal and sailed into the Mediterranean, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi released a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, declaring: "The government of Egypt are pleased to announce that the Suez Canal is now open for normal traffic." Accompanying the letter was a "declaration" of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's charter for the operation of the canal. The declaration, wrote Fawzi, "constitutes an international instrument," and he asked Hammarskjold to register it as such...
...bent on making it up to their brother Arab by re-emphasizing their solidarity against Israel. After the U.S. flag tanker Kern Hills, on Israeli charter, sailed through the Gulf of Aqaba to unload Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even the West's staunch friend Lebanon, registered their solidarity with Nasser over the gulf passageway...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 25--U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold registered Egypt's new declaration on Suez Canal operations as an "international engagement" today...
...Little in Hand. On other issues, Hammarskjold was only slightly more successful. Typically, Hammarskjold tried, in the words of an aide, to convert the disputed passage to the Gulf of Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza...