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Tuesday at midday, eight days after the Middle East war began, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire. The gunfire might cease, but the unpleasant aftermath would be with the world for a long time...
...hours the Security Council debated a dramatic appeal from Nagy to Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. But at 5:15 a.m. the Soviet Union's Arkady S. Sobolev vetoed a resolution censuring the Russian attack on Hungary on the grounds of "interference with the internal affairs of Hungary." Said Lodge: "I am horrified by such cynicism." The debate was taken up in the U.N. General Assembly later, where 50 nations approved (with eight votes against) a U.S. resolution urging Russia to withdraw its troops from Hungary immediately...
...emergency session, the General Assembly voted (57 to 0, with 19 nations abstaining) to authorize Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to raise an "emergency international U.N. force" of volunteers to police the peace in the Middle East. At U.S. urging, the Assembly specified that the volunteers had to come from small powers. Little more than 24 hours later Hammarskjold was able to report offers from eight small nations...
...Peace but a Sword. Seven months ago Dag Hammarskjold rushed to the Middle East and signed all parties to a ceasefire. In a major speech to the Knesset, Ben-Gurion declaimed: "Preventive war would be madness." But all the time Israel prepared. Last month, when Iraqi troops were reported massing to enter a weakened Jordan, Ben-Gurion disappointed some of his followers by his mild response. Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan rose in the middle of the speech and stomped out of the Knesset gallery...
...Israeli attack was flashed to the President in mid-air as he returned from his one-day campaign trip to Florida and Virginia. Dulles meanwhile conferred with British and French diplomats to prepare the way for U.N. action. In Manhattan U.N. delegates conferred with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. On landing in Washington the President went into immediate conference with Dulles at the White House...