Official headquarters here expressed keen displeasure today over Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring’s decision to resume temporarily his post as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow, seeing it as a suspension of his peace mission. They claimed the move was part of a Soviet and French plan to force the United States and Britain into accepting peace proposals calling for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from all occupied territories. They charged that the Four Powers had thereby “enabled the Arabs to achieve their aim of liquidating his (Jarring’s) mission.”
The Israeli feeling that the Jarring mission was “dead” ran counter of disclaimers from UN headquarters. But the Stockholm newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, seemed to write an epitaph to the 18-month-old Jarring mission when it said today that “no one can put the blame on him. He accepted a hopeless mission…an impossible task…He has tried almost everything to get the deadlock off the ground.”
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