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Israelis demanded that they withdraw, two Canadian members of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, Major George Flint and Major Marcel Breault, went forward to investigate. Both were injured when they touched off an anti-personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death...
Oddly enough, these were the first U.N. casualties since the 1949 truce. But the lot of the U.N.'s 60 unarmed policemen on the world's hottest frontier has never been a happy one. Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja...
...hundred enraged natives began hurling iron beer mugs, while Negro municipal police looked on helplessly. Spilling into the street, the mob continued the battle with knives, stones and tools. Suddenly, as several Negroes staggered about with screwdrivers and knives sticking grotesquely from their backs, the crowd made an unspoken truce. Ranging themselves on either side of the street, they turned their fury on the homeward-bound whites, furiously stoned more than 50 cars and their occupants before Johannesburg police broke up the riot. Casualties: six whites seriously injured, two Negroes dead and 24 badly hurt...
...expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns to do something drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns's nose and quoted Deuteronomy to him: "Thou shall not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures...
...exist in the Communist North. Last April the British reversed their Geneva policy and aligned themselves with the U.S. and Diem. Last May the French pulled out their troops and lost their power to influence events. India, authorized by the Geneva powers to supervise the military details of the truce, also agreed to let July 20 pass by and to keep on maintaining the peace...