A plea for a “new kind of patience” in the Arab-Israel conflict was voiced at a press conference here today by United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Declaring that he still feels there is a “fundamental will to peace,” in the Middle East, he stressed that there is no conflict between that view and the fact that a serious shooting incident occurred late last month in the Mt. Scopus area.
“I know both sides very well,” he stated in reiterating his old assertion. “I did call in the statement which I issued on May 26 for a change in attitude. Short of less self-assertion, short of an on-the-spot defensive attitude in an area where people stand very closely together, a new kind of patience must operate. However, this has nothing to do with the fundamental will to peace.”
Mr. Hammarskjold said he will send early next month to the Security Council a complete report on the incident atop Mt. Scopus on May 26 in which Lt. Col. George A. Flint and four Israeli policemen died. The report will contain not only the results of the fact-finding investigation of the incident by the UN Truce Supervision Organization, but, according to Mr. Hammarskjold, will also place the incident “in perspective, relating it to antecedents.”
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