United Nations Secretary General Dam Hammarskjold is limiting his present activities in connection with the question of freedom of passage of the Suez Canal to an attempt to secure the release and passage of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, informed sources reported here today.
The Danish freighter has been held at Port Said since May 21. It carries a cargo of cement and other items being shipped from Israel to Far Eastern destinations.
The United Nations official was said to be limiting his efforts to the Inge Toft case following his failure to make any progress at Cairo in inducing President Nasser of the United Arab Republic to comply with United Nations Security Council directives to permit free passage of the international waterway. It was understood here that Mr. Hammarskjold has not made any progress even with his present limited objective.
(At United Nations headquarters, Mr. Hammarskjold conferred today again with Jacob Blaustein, American Jewish leader, regarding matters concerning the Middle East, including the seizure by Egypt of Israeli cargoes passing through the Suez Canal. A similar meeting had taken place earlier this month.)
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