Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sert recently completed plans for the new United States Embassy buildings in Baghdad, Iraq...
...natty Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, was raised in the fresh Washington harmony. Like Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with Britain) in the Baghdad Pact. Altogether it was a concert of Middle Eastern voices that seemed at last to triumph over the clanking dirge from Egypt's Nasser (who nonetheless still speaks with the most influential single voice in the area...
...like a cancer to the human body." He has vowed Israel's destruction with a venom encouraged by Crown Prince Feisal, who took it as a personal insult when, as Saudi Arabia's U.N. delegate in 1947, he was outvoted in the Assembly. When Britain joined the Baghdad Pact, Saud promptly joined Nasser's bloc in opposition to the Western "imperialists," gave Syria a $10 million loan as an inducement to join too. The Saudi information director began regular swings through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan delivering funds to pro-Nasser newspapers and favored editors and reporters. During...
Just as mixed and mixed up was the first reaction of the outside world. The British and French governments publicly hailed the new plan. The Arab world was divided: the Baghdad Pact nations in favor and the extreme Nasser nationalists against. "We reject most categorically the theory of a vacuum," said Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawy...
...Baghdad Suhrawardy had seen for himself how Nasser intrigued against Iraq; he was also angry at Nasser's flirtation with Russia, and his cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...