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...Fawzi intimated his assent; it was obviously time to head off Security Council action on an Anglo-French proposal to condemn Egypt for its canal seizure and explore what Fawzi meant by "cooperation." Fawzi agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's 38th-floor U.N. offices overlooking the East River. "I will be acting merely as a chaperon," Hammarskjold told Dulles. Said Presbyterian Elder Dulles, with a grin: "My understanding of a chaperon is a person whose job is to keep two people apart...
...Words, Just Words." For three days, usually with Hammarskjold just listening, the three foreign ministers talked in the skyscraper suite. The Westerners felt that they were getting Fawzi to concede little. "Words, just words," blurted discouraged Christian Pineau on leaving one session. Said another diplomat: "Fawzi is conducting a striptease, but so far he hasn't shown an inch of skin." At night Hammarskjold sat up late sifting comments of the bargainers and reducing them to essentials...
...Most Gratifying." Limited as it was, this represented the first important breakthrough in the Suez affair. The diplomats rushed to capitalize on it, and President Eisenhower told his TV campaign "press conference" that "it looks like a very great crisis is behind us." Lloyd and Pineau had booked plane seats for return home, but they postponed their flights. After talking with Dulles, they withdrew their original anti-Egyptian resolution and prepared...
...clump of Soviet assistants, moved about with a big smile and gladhand. Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak popped cherubically into place. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles, arriving at the last moment, moved coldly past Shepilov to shake the hand of France's moon-faced Christian Pineau. For the instigators of the session, Great Britain and France, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd leaned forward and put the issue: "We are determined to uphold our rights, rights properly secured and guaranteed, to free transit through this international waterway." It was an almost typical beginning for a debate...
...Paris, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau demonstrated that his talents are not limited to diplomacy when he published his third volume of fairy tales, L'Ourse aux Pattons Verts (The Lady Bear with the Little Green Paws), a group of stories about romantic princesses ready for marriage, fish that talk and a lady bear named Clementine, who is dedicated to an ancient Gallic ideal: liberty...