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Compromise & Questions. The Israeli defiance was fateful not only for Israel and the Middle East, but for the U.S., the U.N. and for world peace. The U.N. General Assembly had passed a U.S. compromise resolution calling on Secretary-General Hammarskjold to station U.N. Emergency Force units at the border trouble spots "in consultation with the parties concerned." But the Israelis protested that this only gave Nasser a veto over any UNEF moves. When Israeli officials asked Hammarskjold to seek a statement from Egypt renouncing warlike intentions, he not only refused but demanded an answer within 24 hours to two significant...
...More, King." Once settled in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the King began his New York rounds. There were a visit and a speech at the United Nations, a meeting with the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, a luncheon, reception, and dinner, all in the King's honor-and attended most of the time, to his dismay, by newsmen and photographers ("Come on. King, look this way; one more picture. King...
...pressure was on Israel to withdraw, but also on Egypt to negotiate. Should the Egyptians refuse to accept a UNEF garrison on the shores of the Tiran Straits, the UNEF might well wind up adding a navy-a destroyer patrolling the narrows to insure for Israeli ships what Hammarskjold has affirmed as the "right of innocent passage...
...surface indications are that the nation's leaders have not weakened in the slightest, despite pressure from the President and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Israel still demands guarantees against renewal of Egyptian aggression before withdrawing from those portions of Egypt her army still holds...
...Hammarskjold also recognized Israel's right of "innocent passage" in the Gulf of Aqaba, and thus began at last to work his way out of the dead-end U.N. legalism that Nasser had been the unoffending victim of aggression, and the U.N.'s only responsibility was not to reward aggression. Hammarskjold had to operate within the mandate of the Assembly, where the Arab-Asian bloc, when joined by the Communists, can muster up to 36 out of 80 votes. He suggested that if Israel withdrew to the 1949 armistice line, it might be possible to enforce...