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...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area...
Followed by such grateful and admiring words from those he had just pried from each other's throats, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold this week flew back to New York from his month-long peacemaking mission to the Middle East. From Jerusalem he dispatched an advance report to the Security Council that Israel and the four neighboring Arab states had all promised to observe a ceasefire along their borders, and had agreed not to retaliate even if provoked...
...Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel first promised not to go through with its announced plan for drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime...
General of Armies. In the last decisive moments. Hammarskjold had effective support from the Egyptians in urging their allies into line. Egypt is not eager to have a war over Jordan water. Besides. Cairo and other Arab capitals, so lately cocky over Soviet help, have been cooled off considerably by B. and K.'s pledge to the British to work for Middle East peace. "Egypt does not want war," said Major General Hakim Amer in Cairo last week. "We appreciate the consequences...
...eastern neighbors insisted on qualifying their armistice pledge: if Israel carries out its oft-announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...