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...typically low-key manner, it was an important definition of U.S. policy for the Middle East. First, it put U.S. support squarely behind the U.N. as the best instrumentality for keeping the peace in the area, and did so at the strategic time when U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was flying east to work toward a cease-fire between Israel and Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS). Moreover, the support for U.N. implied that the U.S. would expect help from Moscow (in not using its veto power on the Security Council) if Moscow really wants to keep the peace...
...very moment U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold started his delicate peacemaking mission in the Middle East, the U.S. gave him a tremendous boost on his way. In a pivotal policy statement issued last week at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower pledged "support in the fullest measure" for Hammarskjold and for the whole principle of working through U.N. to prevent a new Palestine war. With such emphatic backing, as well as a mandate from the U.N. Security Council, Hammarskjold went into action last week clothed with far greater authority than that of a skilled international bureaucrat trying to be helpful. The first...
...agree to honor the 1949 armistice clause prohibiting any "warlike acts" against each other. Flying into Cairo just as Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser launched reprisals against Israel for the bloody cannonade at Gaza (TIME, April 16), he achieved a stoppage in the fighting within 24 hours (see below). Though Hammarskjold himself was characteristically uninformative in public, Cairo reported that he won Nasser's agreement to a plan for reducing border tensions, mainly by creating a buffer zone extending 550 yards on either side of the frontier, within which U.N. military representatives would patrol. Israel's Premier David...
Involving Russia. The U.S. decision to give Hammarskjold emphatic backing was a new and unexpected turn. It was more than just a playing for time while the Western powers figured out what to do next. At first London cheered Eisenhower's message unreservedly, reading it as a sign that the U.S. was at last taking a properly urgent view of the Middle East crisis. A second reading brought misgivings: in taking the issue to U.N.. President Eisenhower was by omission downgrading the 1950 Tripartite Declaration by which Britain. France and the U.S. agreed to, take immediate "action both...
Despite the depths of hatred in the Middle East, the conviction spread at week's end that both Egypt and Israel would find an advantage in pledging good behavior to Dag Hammarskjold. But how long would such a guarantee last? The British believe that the eventual danger is from Egypt, once it has absorbed and mastered its Communist weapons, but that the immediate threat is from an Israel tempted to start something before that day comes...