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...parading up and down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, with Secretary-General Trygve Lie out front on a white charger. In the midst of the Lebanese crisis last August, President Eisenhower called on the U.N. to set up a "standby peace force." But last week U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cautiously rejected the whole idea of a permanent U.N. army, ready to rush off anywhere and any time. The kind of force "generally envisaged," said he, "would be without great practical value," and expensive to boot...
...Emergency Force of 5,500 men now works on the Egyptian-Israeli border, said Hammarskjold, this is because Egypt agrees to its presence. A similar force would not have worked in Lebanon, he said, "without soon becoming a party to the internal conflicts among the nationals of the country." Nor could a U.N. force have replaced the British in Jordan, because the Jordanian government flatly refused to admit...
...some stage," Hammarskjold conceded, "a standing group of a few military experts might be useful . . . in preparation for meeting possible appeals for an operation." This kind of inexpensive and tentative preparation is also all that the U.S. State Department currently favors...
Only last July the flames of aggression blazed so high in the Middle East that the U.S. and Britain dispatched emergency fire fighters to Lebanon and Jordan, and the whole world scrambled for the summit in asbestos suits. Last week, on the strength of International Fire Chief Dag Hammarskjold's diplomatic finding that the flames were now well under control, the U.S. and Britain announced that they would pull all their men out of the two little countries by month...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...