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...return to reprisals grew in part out of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's conviction that the U.N. cannot enforce the cease-fire that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold negotiated last April. Since that time, 29 Israelis have been killed and 49 wounded in border incidents. Last week's shootings brought the number of reported Jordanian dead to 31, and 27 Egyptians have also died...
...canal," said Dulles, "then I think the matter should be soluble." No one suggested that New York City was "internationalized" because the U.N. was established there, said Dulles, but neither would the U.S. want to mess around with the practical business of maintaining, policing and regulating traffic in Dag Hammarskjold's headquarters...
Until last fortnight there had been many incidents but no serious outbreaks on Israel's borders since U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold won his cease-fire last April. At that point, however, Hammarskjold, the usually quiet Swede, felt impelled to make a loud protest. He announced that he would demand that the Jordan government "punish the transgressors" who killed four Israeli bus passengers a few nights earlier. He had no sooner fired off his warning shot than another flare-up occurred on Israel's touchier border with Egypt...
...ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...Hammarskjold apparently was reassured: his talk with Ben-Gurion, they both said, had been "full and fruitful." Then he moved on to Jordan and Egypt to see if by any chance the Arabs might also be in a fruitful mood...