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Late that morning the Secretary-General visited President Camille Chamoun for 45 minutes, and silently took notes on what the President had to say. Reportedly, Chamoun wanted a U.N. force of several thousand to seal off his Syrian border against further United Arab Republic infiltration. Hammarskjold gave Chamoun no answer and would not even talk to rebel leaders. Instead, he stuck rigidly to his mandate to set up a group to watch the border...
...confused and intermittent struggle for Lebanon might become a crucial battle for the whole Middle East. Behind the Lebanese revolt, whether he started it or not, stood Nasser, his propaganda stirred up hatred* and his agents smuggled arms. Back of the Lebanese government, which was the first in the Arab world to adhere to the Eisenhower Doctrine, stood...
...second was, to back Hammarskjold's line-drawing plan. This way offered a chance to stop Nasser without causing public pain to Nasser's pathologically thin-skinned pride and his prestige as the unstoppable leader of Arab nationalism...
...fourth course might be forced on the Lebanese if all U.N. efforts should fail. Though President Chamoun last week described his policy as "neutrality among the Arab states and friendship for the West," his regime might appeal for help to those Arab neighbors aligned with the West and in opposition to Nasser: the Arab Union of Iraq and Jordan. Iraq's troops would have to be flown in, and there is question whether they would relish fighting other Arabs...
...fifth course, and one that a modern Arab nation would probably take only to save itself from destruction: ask the U.S. and Britain to send in troops...