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...conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Candidate Riegelman, with an eye on New York's powerful Jewish vote, wanted to talk to Dulles about the U.S.'s cancellation of economic aid to Israel, which came after Israel had defied the order of the United Nations truce commission to stop work on a dam in a demilitarized zone on the Syrian border. Riegelman stayed with Dulles for an hour and a half, then appeared in the State Department lobby with a carefully typed statement initialed by Dulles' personal assistant. He was confident, said the candidate, that...
Next day, back in Riegelman's Manhattan, Israel promised the United Nations Security Council that she would stop work on the Jordan dam while the Security Council debated the case. The offer was much like one which the U.N. truce commissioner had rejected as unsatisfactory two weeks before. Nonetheless, on the strength of the stop-work order, President Eisenhower announced at his press conference that "we can proceed with our arrangement for the economic help of Israel." A few hours later, Dulles approved the reinstatement of a $26 million allotment to Israel for the six months ending at year...
...Army's War Crimes Division last week reminded the U.S. of a fact frequently forgotten after long months of stalemate and truce in Korea: on the records, the Communist enemy which waits behind the truce lines is a barbarous enemy, capable of savagery and sadism which rival any atrocities in the history of modern warfare...
Stern Condemnation. Next morning in London, the news stirred the Big Three foreign ministers. Three identical messages went off to the U.N. requesting an "urgent meeting" of the Security Council, which took up the matter this week, and unanimously invited Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike, Chief Truce Supervisor, to New York to report. The U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission, chief enforcement agency of the truce, which has only the power to urge and deplore, deplored the Israeli act as "coldblooded murder." Britain, which stands behind the desert state of Jordan, wired its "distress" and "horror...
...General who signed the truce in behalf...