U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area.
"It is my feeling," said Hammarskjold, "that there is a general will to peace, and that this will should be fostered and encouraged, not by attempts to impose...