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...Live in peace," said Dag Hammarskjold, winding up his 17-day peacemaking mission in the Middle East. In a resolution of last month's emergency U.N. Assembly meeting, the Arabs had pledged themselves to noninterference in one another's affairs, and asked the Secretary General to make practical arrangements to assure that these promises were carried out, with the ultimate object of achieving the evacuation of British and U.S. troops from Jordan and Lebanon...
...Nasser. Yet when Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo, Nasser evasively refused to commit himself to "radio disarmament," but proclaimed to his assembled United Arab States Council: "We will not put down our arms until the occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged...
Jordan's King Hussein, said Hammarskjold, agreed to accept an ambassador as the U.N.'s "presence" in Amman, provided others were named for Cairo and Baghdad, too. Nasser had no objection to one in Amman, but to accept one in Cairo would be an admission that Nasser was guilty of something. That he rejected out of hand. In the face of such intransigence, Hussein concluded that a U.N. presence was no substitute for British troops. This week Amman announced that the British, whose aid was cut off at Jordanian request in 1957, had agreed to grant Jordan...
...Hammarskjold's mission looked better in Lebanon-but largely because Lebanon's crisis seemed to be quieting down. The incoming regime of President-elect Fuad Chehab had gained wide internal backing. But neither Chehab nor President Camille Chamoun could give any commitments. No U.N. presence was established to permit all U.S. troops to withdraw, though last week the U.S. pulled out 2,000 more marines...
...Tunisia, felt compelled to join the Arab League. In the new Arab order taking shape after the Iraqi revolt, only Jordan and Lebanon had lined up against Nasser, and the Lebanon that elected Chehab was already trending back to the old Lebanese position of neutrality among Arabs. If Hammarskjold is undiplomatically candid when he makes his report to the U.N. Assembly later this month, he could report that the problem of the Middle East is still the problem of Nasser...