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...following must come into the reckoning: Nasser, Eden, Khrushchev, Eisenhower, Hammarskjold, Pope Pius XII and the Hungarian people...
Unlike some of the U.N.'s critics, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was not disturbed by UNEF's comparative lack of military muscle. "In terms of its potential effectiveness in performing its mission," he said, UNEF "must be rated as equivalent to a substantially larger military body." In fact, the UNEF buildup provided the British and French governments with a face-saving justification for their decision to carry out a prompt withdrawal from Egypt (see above...
...French left the sooner the U.N. could get on with its other avowed task in Egypt, clearing the Suez Canal. Late last week the first of a fleet of Dutch and Danish salvage vessels began to move toward Egypt. To handle financing of the estimated $40 million clearance operations, Hammarskjold called on Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. To oversee technical operations, he drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story. As one of his first Army assignments...
...replies to Hammarskjold's questions were lengthy and unreassuring. The chief fact which emerged from them was that none of the three invading powers planned to get out of Egypt until they had secured at least some of their war aims...
With the U.S. decision, what little chance there had been of defeating the Menon resolution vanished. By a vote of 63 to 5, with ten abstentions, the resolution passed. A few minutes later the Assembly, by an even more one-sided vote (65 to 0 with nine abstentions), authorized Hammarskjold to continue the negotiations he had begun with Dutch and Danish firms for clearance of the Suez Canal. With this vote went all Anglo-French hopes of getting the canal open on their own terms...