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...which many cheered, was largely the doing of the great powers. In their anxiety to avoid even implicit U.N. condemnation as "aggressors," the U.S. and Britain had thrown their weight behind an innocuous Norwegian resolution to turn the problem of Lebanon and Jordan over to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. And Russia's Andrei Gromyko, though full of snarling references to Western "armed intervention" in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern nations, met privately with U.S. Secretary of State Dulles in a small office in the U.N., and agreed that "a quieting down" was in order...
...Arab resolution-described by Mahgoub as a step toward "human perfection, peace and security"-was a shrewd blend of the earlier Norwegian resolution and of the plan for a Middle East settlement outlined by Dag Hammarskjold at the opening meeting of the emergency session (TIME, Aug. 18). It proclaimed that the Assembly...
Dreams & Delusions. In Washington and London this turn of events evoked cries of enthusiasm. After all, only a month before, both nations had been worried about standing in the dock for dispatching troops to the Middle East. The British had further cause for jubilation. If Dag Hammarskjold-who promptly announced that he would leave for the Middle East this week-could carry out his intention of persuading Jordan's King Hussein to accept "anything, from one individual to a substantial U.N. group," the way would be paved for a withdrawal of the British paratroopers hemmed in on Amman airfield...
...judge by the Suez crisis, if Hammarskjold succeeds in damping down the Lebanese and Jordanian crises enough to warrant U.S. and British withdrawal, Arab poets a year hence will be writing songs in praise of the heroic Lebanese and Jordanian patriots who fearlessly drove the Western imperialists into...
...talked of going on an "indefinite" hunger strike. He did. Last week, his weight down to 90 Ibs., staying alive only with occasional pinches of salt, bowls of rice broth and fruit juice, Vo totted up his recent appeals to world figures, including U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower, Vietnamese Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh...