A plan for formation of a”Permanent United Nations Peace Force” and establishment of a permanent UN “Peace Observer Corps” will be submitted to all delegations here tomorrow in a special study prepared under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The plan envisages the use of additional military personnel to boaster the present United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine.
The study, written by William R.Frye. U. N. correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, who took a six-month leave of absence from his newspaper to prepare the work for the Carnegie Endowment, bases many of its conclusions on the experiences with the United Nations Emergency Force which is at present deployed along the Gulf of Akaba and in the Gaza Strip.
In his study, Mr. Frye provides one of the most concise statements made up to this time to delegates here about Israel’s position regarding deployment of UNEF “on” the Egypt-Israel demarcation line, That subject, with the insistence of some delegations as well as of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that Israel allow UNEF on its side of the Gaza frontier, is expected to be aired before the General Assembly’s twelfth regular session which convenes here Tuesday.
“One reason Israel refuses, “states Mr. Frye,” is that a UN police force would be more effective in deterring the large-scale, organized retaliation raids on which she depends than in preventing border crossings by small Arab fedayeen commando squads, usually consisting of five men. Thus Israel, in her view, could be pin-pricked to death while her hands were tied behind her.”
A second Israeli motive for resisting UNEF on her side of the border is seen by Mr. Frye in the fear that the UN some day will attempt an “imposed” peace settlement.”Once a police force were ensconced around Israel.”he declares,”some Israelis say the General Assembly might delineate new boundaries, taking up stations on them, Those boundaries might be the original lines on which partition was made in 1947, for example, or some minor modification of them.”
“If such a move,”Mr. Frye continues, “were part of an equitable overall settlement of problems such as refugees, water utilization, freedom of Israel’s commerce, etc., there are many who feel it was in Israel’s long-range interest to have that done; but Israel is highly sensitive on the question of territory, and resists any suggestion that land be traded to the Arabs for concessions on other points. Desire to preserve every square foot of territory is another reason given by Israelis for refusal to admit a UN police force onto her side of the line.” It is known that, among delegations consulted by Mr. Frye in the process of preparing his study were the delegations of Israel and Egypt here.
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