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What is the next move? First, confirm peace. Work through the United Nations to get the British, the French and the Israelis out of the Suez and the Sinai Peninsula. Then clear the Suez Canal and get oil flowing as soon as possible to Western Europe...
...should the Suez Canal he cleared? The job of removing the 47 sunken ships should be done under U.N. auspices. Danish and Norwegian salvage companies have already been contracted, and parts of the six-month job will be sublet among other countries. To avoid outbursts of Arab resentment, e.g., further sabotage of oil lines, the job should probably be done without the aid of Britain and France...
What sort of permanent Suez settlement is desirable? The starting place for negotiations should be the six principles adopted by the U.N. six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 22)-principles that Egypt's Nasser has tentatively accepted. The U.S. is willing to accept Egypt's sovereignty over the canal, but international (including Israeli) access to the canal must be guaranteed, and the canal must specifically be "isolated" from the politics of any one country...
...article, entitled "The Military Lessons of Suez," Katzenbach cites the inadequacies of the post-Korean War policy of "gradual deterrence," that is, the use of restrained force rather than nuclear bombs. This plan required that troops move with "flexibility" and speed to the area of conflict, which, the author maintains, neither the Marines nor a transport air fleet...
...forced to use atomic weapons in place of troops to pursue its policy of "gradual deterrence." The author cites Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles's belief that conflicts must be localized through "carefully chosen atomic weapons." Katzenbach doubts, however, that atomic weapons could be used successfully in the Suez crisis, or in central Europe...