Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courteous and smiling when the committee came to his modest Nileside office -"probably the only office in Cairo," said a reporter, "without a picture of Nasser." He seated his guests-Menzies, U.S. Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies, a tough Tory of the Churchillian...
Under the Banyans. On Wednesday, as the British and French foreign ministers spelled out their policies at a NATO council meeting in Paris, the Suez committee sent Iran's Ali Ardalan to make another pitch to Nasser. "A lovely talk," was all the Iranian would say afterward. At his press conference in Washington President Eisenhower said: "The U.S. is committed to a peaceful solution of this [Suez] problem." When the Cairo negotiators met a fourth time, they debated 105 minutes before breaking up in futility. Menzies was reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained...
Rule of East Pakistan by the Awami League, which wants Pakistan to switch to a neutralist foreign policy, carried unpleasant implications for the U.S., which considers Pakistan its most reliable ally on the Asian continent. It also posed a considerably more immediate threat to Prime Minister Mohamad Ali, 51, the lean financial expert who has led Pakistan's central government for 13 turbulent months. In the last two years Pakistani politicians have taken to switching parties with all the abandon of a woman trying on hats, and it was now almost certain that a number of East Pakistan members...
Even without this flank attack, however, Ali's position was untenable. On the same day that the Awami League took over East Pakistan, two of Ali's central government ministers deserted his Moslem League Party, leaving the league with only eleven out of 80 seats in the National Assembly. To make matters worse, the Moslem League itself was talking of expelling Ali on the grounds that he had been dealing over-enthusiastically with other parties in the coalition on which his government depends...
Late last week, protesting bitterly at "the campaign of vilification and slander against me." Ali resigned both the premiership and his membership in the Moslem League. Pakistan President Iskander Mirza, announcing that he wanted time to review the play up to that point, asked Ali to remain on the job temporarily. At week's end Mirza was still deep in review and looking for a ball carrier...