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...news of the Gaza shelling broke just as U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold prepared to take off on a mission to the Middle East. In sponsoring the U.N. resolution which dispatched him, the U.S. had hoped his presence could quiet the borders and add authority to the U.N. Truce Commission. Hammarskjold himself described his trip as at best "just an episode on the long road" toward Palestine settlement. At this moment, peace in the Middle East is only a relative condition, and settlement a dreamer's word. But is open war, then, a likely possibility...
Security Council to send Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on an urgent fact-finding mission to Palestine, and President Dwight Eisenhower solemnly warned that the U.S. would consider any outbreak of hostilities there "a catastrophe to the world...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 22-- The Security Council of the United Nations meets Monday on the Palestine crisis with Russia expected, at least tentatively, to approve a new American-sponsored plan that would send Secretary-Gen. Dag Hammarskjold on a Middle East peace mission, possibly on April...
...Hammarskjold's C-47 took off from Cairo's International Airport, a sleek new fighter plane flashed aloft from Almaza military airfield just four miles away The plane: one of the first of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Russian MIG jets to be seen over Egypt...
...once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...