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...Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French withdrawal...
...British and French notes amounted to a declaration that Anglo-French forces would remain in Port Said until Egypt had been pressured into surrendering unilateral control of the Suez Canal. The Israeli government would surrender Sinai only after the U.N. found some way "to ensure Israel's security against the recurrence of the threat ... of attack" by the Arab nations...
...Highest Regard." When he first got news of the Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt, Dag Hammarskjold, who has closer intellectual and emotional ties with the British and French than with any other group in the U.N., went into a state of near shock. Late that night, after Britain and France had vetoed two Security Council cease-fire proposals, Hammarskjold went to his eight-room apartment at East 73rd Street and Park Avenue and tried to get some sleep. But sleep would not come, and at dawn his housekeeper found him hunched over the desk in his study, writing...
With his armed forces shattered and large chunks of his nation under foreign occupation. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser persisted in behaving like a victor. "Today." bragged Cairo's government-backed Al Gumhuria, "it is Egypt that will dictate terms." The Anglo-French forces, insisted the Egyptian dictator, must leave Egypt immediately-and as soon as they had gone, the U.N. police force must also get out of the Canal Zone and confine itself to patrolling the old 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice line. As for the Suez question, said Nasser, not until British and French forces left Egypt...
Iran (pop. 21,146,000). Like Turkey, a Moslem-but not an Arab-state. Three years ago the country was falling into anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably...