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CAIRO, March 21--U.N. Secretary Dag Hammerskjold is taking the line that Israel will have to withdraw from a little triangle of land in the Negeb Desert to establish legal right to send ships through the Suez Canal...
This was reported by informed diplomats as Hammarskjold met Egyptian President Nasser tonight to explore the tangle of Middle East issues. They include such varied problems as the Gaza Strip, Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba that have become snarled in the same ball of twine...
...connection between the little triangle in the Negeb, the so-called El Auja demilitarized zone, and Israel's rights in the Suez Canal, is highly important to the legal-minded Hammarskjold, the informants said...
Crum said that the doctrine involves an implicit moral commitment to protect the interests of Israel, including use of the Suez Canal for peaceful shipping. He echoed the hope of several Jewish leaders that the Gaza Strip not be returned to Egyptian jurisdiction until there is a final settlement of the whole Arab-Israeli dispute...
...British Foreign Office termed Egypt's six-point memorandum on ground rules for the reopened Suez Canal disquieting in that it made no reference to six principles adopted by the U.N. last October as the basis for negotiations on the canal operations...