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Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes, a man who does not scare easily, took Nuri seriously enough to fly off to Baghdad for a hasty conference with Iraq's influential Crown Prince Abdul Illah; on his return, he looked anything but happy. The U.S. quietly withdrew an advance text of Dulles' opening speech. Plainly, the Baghdad powers had reached a crossroads of confidence, would not be content with the platitudes of sympathy and support...
...still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force has animated the Baghdad Pact from the outset, kept it alive when it was threatened with dissolution after Britain's invasion of Suez...
Like his border guards, Adnan Menderes keeps an unwavering eye on Russia, never takes his hand far from the trigger, and never succumbs to the illusion that just because nothing is visible in the underbrush, there is no danger. Unlike some of the U.S.'s other allies, neither Menderes nor his people have been even momentarily lulled into relaxation by Russian blandishments or tempted toward neutralism by Russian threats. In the last 300 years the Turks have fought the Russians so many times they have lost count; some say there have been 13 Russo-Turkish wars, some estimate...
Less easy to see is why repression of the press and often anti-democratic maneuvers are necessary for such success. Apparently, hardworking, dedicated Adnan Menderes cares not, so long as his name goes down in Turkish history, alongside Ataturk, as Adnan the Builder...
Last week when the Soviet Foreign Office, on the eve of the Baghdad Pact meeting, cried that Turkey's acceptance of such missiles was likely to have "dangerous consequences," sturdy Adnan Menderes did not even bother to comment. Says one U.S. official, noting with rueful admiration that Turkey's 470,000-man army constitutes the biggest force contributed to NATO by any nation: "With most of our allies, the problem is to get them to build up to minimum strength. With the Turks, the problem is to get them to stop somewhere...