Americans strongly favor a United Nations police force to patrol the Israeli-Egyptian border on a semi-permanent basis, according to a Gallup poll reported today. Fifty-eight percent, or nearly six out of every ten Americans, said they favored the United Nations asking member countries to supply troops for such a semi-permanent border patrol.
Among those who favor the plan, the American Institute of Public Opinion reported, sentiment is nearly six to one that the United States should send troops as part of such a patrol. The present United Nations Emergency Force was created by contributions from smaller member nations of the United Nations, with United States and other major powers specifically excluded.
The poll was taken prior to the Israeli rejection of President Eisenhower’s appeal for an immediate withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Akaba positions. The vote on a semi-permanent UN police patrol was 58 percent describing it as a “good idea,” 24 percent calling it a “poor idea” and 18 percent having no opinion. The vote on American participation in such a patrol was 60 percent in favor, 11 percent opposed and 29 percent no opinion.
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