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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey clamored for help in its feud with the Greeks over Cyprus. Iran called for U.S. missiles and more economic aid. Pakistan was particularly annoyed because the U.S. had just proposed $225 million aid to India, its neutralist neighbor and rival claimant of Kashmir. Iraq, the Baghdad Pact's one Arab member, demanded action on the Palestine question -"the core of instability and restlessness in the Middle East." All four, who have dubbed themselves the "area" members of the Baghdad Pact to distinguish themselves from "donors" (meaning Britain and the U.S.), wanted more military and economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST Observer's Pledge | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Ankara's new Parliament building, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles listened impassively. In theory, Dulles was present only as an "observer," because the U.S. is not a member, and to join the Baghdad grouping outright would antagonize Israel and Saudi Arabia. In reality, as the pact members recognized, only Dulles could save the meeting from failure and unseemly bickering. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd quickly made clear that Britain was sympathetic to the area members' pleas, but could offer no more help just now. It was up to Dulles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST Observer's Pledge | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Calm Focus. Shrewd and impenetrably affable, Dulles talked with calm realism. Let's get things in focus, was his theme. One and only one basic, unifying interest had brought members together: mutual defense against their Soviet Communist neighbor. Dulles argued that the U.S. could do more for the Baghdad nations by remaining outside the pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST Observer's Pledge | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...private conversation, even the delegates meeting in Ankara this week would probably not argue that the Baghdad Pact has been an unqualified success. It has aroused vast antagonism to the West-and to Turkey-among hysterically "anti-imperialist" Arab nations, and its members' hopes that more Arab states may one day be persuaded to join (Iraq is the only Arab member) still remain just hopes. The U.S.'s refusal so far to become a full member-largely because this would prompt an immediate Israeli demand for a separate mutual-defense treaty with the eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...real importance of the Baghdad Pact is simply that it continues to exist. Thus it serves to deter Soviet aggression and, scarcely less important, to provide four major countries of the traditionally anarchic Middle East with practical experience in economic and military cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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