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Lebanon's odd little sporadic war did not end last week, but some of the international tension over it abated. To the unconcealed chagrin of the Lebanese government, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned from Beirut reporting "no foundation" to the government's charges of "mass infiltration" by the United Arab Republic and accordingly no need for a big U.N. police force to seal off Lebanon's frontiers, although the U.N. observers admitted that they had free access to only eleven of Lebanon's 172 miles of border with Syria. The U.S. Sixth Fleet stopped steaming...
...these circumstances. Nasser, who had also sailed out of the eastern Mediterranean in search of some relaxation (see above), might accept the challenge to live up to Dag Hammarskjold's bland finding that his U.A.R.'s meddling was not major. Then it would become possible for the Lebanese government to solve the crisis with its own means, if it has the will...
During Dag Hammarskjold's swift peacemaking mission to the Middle East last week, somebody in Beirut, who knew he was coming, baked him a cake. Presented at the presidential palace, the cake bore these words: "United Nations Save Lebanon." Commented the world's No. 1 international civil servant: "Only the Lebanese can save Lebanon...
...Hammarskjold had brought his group of 94 U.N. observers in white jeeps to the Lebanese border country because the Lebanese government had complained of "massive" infiltration and gunrunning from the United Arab Republic. Last week, after visiting Cairo and making a strong pitch to Nasser to use his influence with the rebels to calm the situation, Hammarskjold said that he was "optimistic" that his thin line of border watchers could eventually put a stop to meddling from the Syrian side...
More important, Hammarskjold seems to have concluded that the U.A.R.'s undoubted tampering with trouble was not so critical a factor in the Lebanese deadlock as the Lebanese government claimed. "The Observation Group believes," said his U.N. group's first report from Beirut, "that the progressive implementation of its mandate will contribute greatly to the creation within Lebanon of conditions which will make possible the solution by the Lebanese people themselves of the internal problems which face the country at the present time...