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...Legal Way. The U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold has chosen a second, softer, lawyer's way of dealing with Nasser, and this is what made all the confusing headlines last week. Hammarskjold works to a plan which requires him to ignore alike the Egyptian calumnies, insults and niggling harassments against his UNEF and the "appeaser" cries of the frustrated Israelis. Taking off for Cairo, he announced, as optimistically as Hammarskjold ever gets: "We may be able to establish a situation in Gaza that will give all parties concerned satisfaction, including Israel...
Last week, in a calculated rebuke to Nasser, the U.S. joined the military committee of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, an organization against which Nasser has raged almost as unceasingly as have his Russian friends. By a design, Ike's special ambassador, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, is touring friendly Middle East lands first, explaining U.S. aid-without-strings, thereby increasing the isolation of Nasser and adding to the pressures against extremist regimes in Jordan and Syria...
Looking frankly past Nasser to the sort of Middle Eastern stability that might be won ten years hence, the U.S. is encouraging schemes to free Western Europe from its overwhelming dependence on the Suez Canal. Last week leaders of the oil industry met in London to draw plans for a $500 million pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers...
This kind of policy makes no promises of scoring a satisfyingly early victory over Nasser: it does not even set itself to bring him down, but only to reduce his capacity to do mischief. An intransigent Nasser, presiding over a nation too pauperized to be hurt much from economic pressures, is admittedly hard to get at. But U.S. policy is based on the conviction that a dictator who has shown himself more clever than wise is also not a man able to stand the slow throbbing of time...
...Arab state which has been most faithfully in Nasser's corner, and has gone perhaps even further than Egypt to accept Russian help and direction, is Syria. For about a year 31-year-old Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, Nasser-admiring chief of Syria's military intelligence service, has been next thing to king of the beasts in the Syrian political jungle. Last week, angered by his increasing inroads on their hunting preserves, and perhaps even a little disturbed by Russian influence, some of the older inhabitants of the jungle tried to run Serraj...