Word: hammarskjolds
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...thoroughly trumpeted on the world's radio -from the Kremlin's Nikita Khrushchev. Its purpose: the U.S.S.R. proposed that the U.S.S.R.'s Khrushchev, the U.S.'s Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold get together at Geneva-or "any venue, including Washington"-this very week to discuss "the military invasion of the Lebanon and Jordan by the U.S.A. and Great Britain...
...world balance of power . . . The balance of power in turn depends upon the outcome in the Middle East. And in the present circumstances, the outcome in the Middle East depends upon the outcome in Iraq. Most of the reasons for not taking action [in Iraq] are mere twaddle-Hammarskjold-twaddle, world opinion-twaddle, other kinds of twaddle...
...argument was a sharp one, but far more damaging to U.S. prestige was the position of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Plainly miffed at the implicit U.S. flouting of the U.N. observers, he pronounced the observers' operation a "complete success...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. At week's end Nikita Khrushchev played his trump, proposed an emergency big-name conference in Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history...
...bald Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic produced a letter from the president of the Lebanese Parliament denouncing U.S. intervention as an infringement of Lebanese sovereignty. Finally, as the second day ended, still another sour note was sounded. Gunnar Jarring of Sweden, echoing the irritation of his countryman Hammarskjold, declared that in view of the American landings, the. U.N. observers should be withdrawn. In effect, this would mean that the U.S. would be left to get out of its predicament as best it could...