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When the ministers met on the fourth day, Hammarskjold laid before them a set of six principles on which a negotiation of the Suez case could proceed. "Gentlemen, what do you think of this?" he asked. For another three hours the ministers talked, quibbled, phrased and rephrased. By late afternoon they had agreed. Then the Security Council was summoned back into full session, and Dag Hammarskjold read out the six principles on which the three foreign ministers had agreed...
...arbitration of the sum to be paid the expropriated Suez Canal Company...
...Most Gratifying." Limited as it was, this represented the first important breakthrough in the Suez affair. The diplomats rushed to capitalize on it, and President Eisenhower told his TV campaign "press conference" that "it looks like a very great crisis is behind us." Lloyd and Pineau had booked plane seats for return home, but they postponed their flights. After talking with Dulles, they withdrew their original anti-Egyptian resolution and prepared...
...resolution, but Shepilov, with Yugoslavia's Koca Popovic for company, cast Russia's veto against the section calling for international control. The result: the council endorsed only the "six principles" as the basis for further efforts to find a real solution to the conflicting needs of the Suez Canal's users and its Egyptian confiscators...
...Dulles mean by 'insulating the canal from politics?' The canal still runs through Egypt." The week's events, however, could be counted a broad step toward conciliation and away from the recent angry moment when governments were mobilizing fleets and armies and threatening war over Suez...