Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, the U.S. Government showered $105 million in economic aid and $50 million in military aid on Pakistan's likable Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. In him the U.S. recognized a friend; in his country the U.S. recognized an Asian nation steadfast in its resistance to Communism. Unfortunately, just at the climactic moment, Ali had to cut short his trip and hurry home. In Karachi 70 hours later, Mohammed Ali was all but stripped of power...
...country, sixth most populous in the world, is prepared, said Ali, to offer these incentives...
...doing this?" said Mohammed Ali. "A cynic might say that we aren't doing it for our health. Well, he would be wrong. That's exactly what we are doing...
...Gave Us a Mind." U.S. officials, though pleased, sounded a note of caution. Pakistan is suffering from a lack of foreign exchange, has at the moment no dollars to remit any profits or repatriate any capital. Ali was taking the bold and worthwhile gamble that in five years or so, the influx of foreign capital and the benefits it brought would give Pakistan enough foreign exchange to make good on his pledge...
...gamble that the U.S. would do well to back. Pakistan is the U.S.'s most faithful friend in Southeast Asia, has defied India's displeasure to stand with the West against Communism. "I am not a neutral, personally or politically," Ali declared. "The neutral has no mind of his own. God gave us a mind, and we should use it to come to conclusions." Ali's conclusion was that the West's capital and Asia's resources could safely collaborate in a fruitful partnership involving neither a return to colonialism nor a threat...