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...short notice, and unshaven on his arrival, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold last week dropped in on Israel for what he insisted was a "personal visit." Since the Secretary-General had made a tour of the Middle East less than three months ago, and was not expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns...
Peace-and U.N. prestige-took a beating at a Security Council meeting last week. To thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum for peace built up by his Palestine mission, the British had cooked up a well intentioned resolution. To make it speak for East as well as West, Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well...
...same time, it was learned that Dag Hammarskjold, previously listed as a strong possibility, would not be in Cambridge during Commencement Week. Although several early entrants in the contest had listed the U.N. Secretary-General as a possibility, their chances for the big $15.00 first prize are not seriously impaired...
...mind is that possibilities will come from a variety of fields. Thus, in the past, there has usually been at least one outstanding foreign leader. Two years ago, it was Robert Schuman; last year it Konrad Adenauer. The CRIMSON suggests that this year Secretary-General of the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold is likely to win an honorary degree...
...feeling," said Hammarskjold, "that there is a general will to peace, and that this will should be fostered and encouraged, not by attempts to impose from outside solutions to problems of vital significance to everyone in the region," but by local initiative. "If we have previously experienced chain reactions leading to a continuous deterioration of the situation, we may now have the possibility of starting a chain of reactions in the opposite direction." He told reporters that he was "not willing" to recommend any next step himself. "I feel strongly that more than ever it is in the hands...