UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold said yesterday on his return from the Middle East that he had made his trip to handle a number of limited problems which required careful and immediate handling.
Asked if he felt that peace in the Middle East was now a little more certain as a result of his visits to Jordan, Israel Syria and Lebanon, he said that peace was a much bigger question and he was concerned only with the immediate problems for which he made his trip. He said he would name a special representative to handle the agreement reached between Israel and Jordan on the Mount Scopus convoy controversy but he did not say when he would make the appointment.
Asked about Col. Byron Leary, acting chief of staff of the UN Truce Supervisory organization whom the Jordanians charged with pro-Israel bias in the convoy controversy, the Secretary General said he saw no reason to go into that at this moment and that he had put his full confidence in Col. Leary in writing. He said full inspection of Mount Scopus convoys was necessary to make sure the Israel Jordan agreement would be fulfilled.
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