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...Political Wreck. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had turned up in Cairo to present, among other things, the West's plan (sponsored by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway) to have half the tolls paid to the International Bank until a final settlement is negotiated. Nasser was disposed to negotiate no settlements. Early last week Hammarskjold watched as the salvage crews at last raised the tug Edgar Bonnet, which Nasser had used for so long as a "political wreck" to keep the canal blocked...
...Hammarskjold departed for New York, Nasser declared the canal open, and published his terms in a memorandum circulated to seven nations (but not to Britain and France), seeking "comments." His primary condition: the canal will be operated and managed by the nationalized Suez Canal Authority, and nobody else. Said Egyptian Spokesman Ali Sabri: "There will be no foreign supervision whatsoever." Other provisions...
WHILE the State Department offered itself (and everyone else) tranquilizer pills, and Dag Hammarskjold landed in Cairo wearing a forbearing expression, Gamal Abdel Nasser, colossus of the canal, laid down his terms. They were enough to make the angry angrier, and Hammarskjold's task harder. But if there is little promise of a satisfyingly early comeuppance for Nasser, there are slow squeezes at work. See FOREIGN NEWS, Three Ways...
...Legal Way. The U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold has chosen a second, softer, lawyer's way of dealing with Nasser, and this is what made all the confusing headlines last week. Hammarskjold works to a plan which requires him to ignore alike the Egyptian calumnies, insults and niggling harassments against his UNEF and the "appeaser" cries of the frustrated Israelis. Taking off for Cairo, he announced, as optimistically as Hammarskjold ever gets: "We may be able to establish a situation in Gaza that will give all parties concerned satisfaction, including Israel...
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is returning from talks with Nasser on this question...