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This week, at the close of a hectic four-month U.N. session, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold prepared to fly to Cairo to open the next round with the Egyptian dictator. In an interview with an Indian reporter, Nasser confirmed Egypt's veto of an interim proposal put forward through the U.N. last month by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway. By this plan, 50% of canal tolls would be paid to Egypt, the rest to some such neutral agency as the World Bank, to be held in escrow for repaying the original owners of the confiscated canal company. Instead...
...York it was announced U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is flying to Cairo Saturday for consultations...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 8--Dag Hammarskjold told the U.N. Assembly today all Israeli troops have withdrawn from Egypt and the Gaza Strip. He then began work on the next task of peace-keeping thereabouts...
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...
...ticking in the Middle East went on, the onlooking U.N. was not living up to the worst forebodings. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, required to work within a narrow mandate, was showing an imaginative ability to steer things towards a settlement. The U.N.'s worst offender, Soviet Russia, last week tried to push through a mischievous resolution investigating U.S. "aggressive actions" in the Middle East, and though the U.S. itself cheerfully voted for the resolution in the steering committee, to show that it had nothing to hide, the proposal was defeated 8 to 6 in committee...