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11/1/56 1. The first objective of the United Nations should be to achieve a cease-fire because this will: (a) Keep the war from spreading. (b) Give time to find out what each side is trying to gain. (c) Develop a final resolution that will represent the considered judgment of the United Nations respecting past blame and future action. The 2. The United States must lead because: (a) While we want to do all the things in 1 above, we want to prevent immediate issuance by the United Nations of a harshly worded resolution that would put us in an acutely embarrassing position, either with France and Britain or with all the rest of the world. (b) At all costs the Soviets must be prevented from seizing a mantle of world leadership through a false but convincing exhibition of concern for smaller nations. Since Africa and Asia almost unanimously hate one of the three nations Britain, France and Israel, the Soviets need only to propose severe and immediate punishment of these three to have the

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