THE MIDDLE EAST: The Listener

"We are builders, growers and healers," said Dag Hammarskjold, chief of the U.N.'s staff of international men in white, touring tense Middle East capitals last week. It was a U.N. healer, Ralph Bunche, who last won peace in Palestine seven years ago, and many highly placed observers think that just such a skilled and universally trusted international hand is needed there now. Climbing first out of his white U.N. plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely...

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