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None was more startled than Lodge at the Secretary-General's decision: Hammarskjold had intervened in council debate only twice before-once during the Suez crisis, again when the Russians smashed the Hungarian rebellion. Hammarskjold could recall the fate of Trygve Lie, whose intervention on behalf of the U.N. in Korea had won Lie the hostility of the Russians and cost him the Secretary-General's post. But, at 52, Hammarskjold had just been re-elected to a five-year term, and for weeks he had been brooding about the disheartening deadlock over disarmament...
...tangible advantage Israel got out of the Sinai invasion was to open up its now bustling southernmost port of Elath to the sea, so that its ships could trade with East Africa and Asia while bypassing Nasser's Suez Canal. Invading Israeli armies, routing the Egyptians from the Sinai peninsula, spiked the Egyptian guns placed to menace any vessel seeking entrance from the Red Sea through the narrow, four-mile-wide Strait of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba and thence to Elath. Now the U.N. Emergency Force guards the strait and permits Israel "innocent passage" into the gulf...
Gamal Abdel Nasser made a spectacular payment on his debt to the Kremlin last week. He flew to Russia to pay the long-postponed visit that had to be put off in 1956 because of the Suez crisis. Moscow greeted him with such a welcome as no other foreigner but Nehru and Tito had received before...
...help the people of the Middle East. We want only one thing: consolidation of the position achieved by the Arab peoples." Replying, Nasser reviewed his old line against "imperialism" and "treacherous aggression," thanking his hosts for "your support and your ultimatum, factors which upheld freedom and morale" in the Suez showdown...
Just before Nasser left for Russia, the West had given him a chance to escape any further Russian clutches. After Nasser settled the expropriated Suez Canal Co.'s claims for $81 million (TIME, May 5), Washington freed $26 million in frozen Egyptian assets, and U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare told Nasser that the U.S. was preparing generally for a return to "normal'' relations with Cairo, was ready to resume CARE surplus food shipments, student exchanges and rural improvement aid, and to end restrictions on delivering such industrial items as ball bearings, lubricating oils and spare parts...