Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...
...with Khrushchev) of the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial reorganization, covered the Jordan crisis, traced the growing rift between King Saud and Egypt's Nasser, Roving Reporter Alsop decided the experiment was a success, will work overseas indefinitely. This fall he plans to leave Paris for Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Philippines and Japan...
...countries he visited, eleven wholeheartedly bought into the doctrine or registered their general approval. Among the outright subscribers are the four Baghdad Pact members (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan) and Greece. Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon, Libya and Ethiopia, have signed policy declarations expressing opposition to international Communism. Afghanistan, more circumspect because of neighboring Russia, welcomed the overall U.S. objective in the Middle East-national independence and economic betterment...
...conversation is understandably lively, and goes on in knots up and down the table. Here there is a discussion of the foreign policy of Afghanistan, from which unlikely country a Junior Fellow whose field is Indic Philology has just returned. There the question turns to the operational definition of concepts, and the degree to which it can be applied in the social sciences. Here a defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed...
...with six Washington-appointed aides and two secretaries, Richards started off with pro-Western countries: Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. With apparent success he earnestly tried to clear away any suspicions that the Eisenhower Doctrine harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint communique that, to the State Department...