WEST MOVES SWIFTLY FOR MIDEAST PEACE TO FORESTALL RED INTERVENTION THREAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100140116-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: November 7, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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West Moves Swiftly for MideastPeace
To Forestall Red Intervention Threat
.By Chalmers M. Roberts remler Nikolai Bulganin an!nadian Prime Minister Louis
start RsvOItfl onday said this country ~ St. Laurent.' Canada was the
n e a es an euld "oppose" any entry of I sponsor of the U. N. police
other non-Communist natlo uasialt forces into the area,lforce and the United States is
arenared to offer. it America
against time, a race to pus military order was descrioed as 1 ably ' including airlift. Moir.?
United Nations internationa a precautionary move but short ever, it will composed of
police force into Egypt befo of an "alert." - forces from the smiSer ma-
the Soviet Union can Inprve American officials felt that tions only, with- the United
in the Middle East eonfllet. the British-French cease-fire States, Russia, Britain, Fro"
Most American.OMCials announcement probably had and Nationalist China speetfb
not expect the Salve Unlotl me earlier than London and cally excilided.-
'despite all the strong Paris had intended because of, The. President also sent a
it used in a series of fuss the threat of Soviet interven- message to Indian ?Pr ms Min-
to the -United States; Bri tion. _ lister Jawaharlal..N4btv,- but
openly to send miliary f
into the area to help the
trans.
But the hope ,berg, as It a
peered to be the Vnited,N
tions in Newyork as wei1;
-that the U. N. force can qquiekl
;be substituted for the $rltish
French forces along the Sue
Canal and for the Israeli fo
lin Egypt's Sinai >b White House Pipss SeWtsry
(This, it Is reasoned, would dames C. Haply said thel
move any opportunity,
temptation for Russia to'm
in, even with so-called ft o
teers" about which there' w
some talk from Moscow Yestoz
day.
The United States Sixt
Fleet in the Eastern,Medite
ranean and other, Americ
military forces in the genera
area were ordered on guard
for any. possible Soviet fhiUta
activity in the Middle East.'
'!resident's message to Sovie
ceived ,the cease-ftre news in a
phone call he made to British
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
shortly, before Eden made a
pub i announcement. The
President had returned to
Washington by plane, rather
th4n by car, after voting yes-
terday at Gettysttsrg because
Chief Executt tufally is
vb "!ta
quite pleased" at news. Mr.
Eisanliower later LL nt a mes-
aaggn~to French Ltd. Guy,
MoUet, Hagerty d.
The Presideuf 4It Is, know
closed. American aim is two-
fol4: to help get,tbe U. N.-4w
lice force Into tion as
quickly. as possible,, both, to
keep the Rusdani out -and to
get the British,. French and
Israeli out; and,' so Hagerty
put it yesterday, them to "pro-
ceed to a solution" of the
Arab-Israeli dispute. A solu-
tion of the Suez Canal dispute
also is part- of this second
American aim.
Thq United States has peed-,
Britain aria
the U. N.
to drop the
both gov-
ernments ear had attached
to their aka $d
Mr. It :efi d yesterday
also tajq. by I to +G a-
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