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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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