Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given in Parliament." He summed up, as government debaters had not bothered to, the grave consequences of General Glubb's expulsion from command of Jordan's British-paid army: "It increases the danger of war. It is a very serious setback to the policy of the Baghdad Pact. It accordingly becomes clear, surely, that we must have a reassessment of our whole policy in the Middle East...
After developing his case on the mishandling of the Baghdad Pact and the attempt to rush Jordan into signing it, Gaitskell gripped the dispatch box before him and roared out his indictment of "this ill-judged, ill-informed and badly carried-out attempt to continue what is in essence a paternalistic policy." Urging that Britain should now consider matching its Jordanian alliance with an Israeli treaty, Gaitskell spoke for many Tory as well as Labor members: "We must allow Israel the arms to balance those received by Egypt from Czechoslovakia...
...flooded Jordan with hard-mouthed urban refugees who knew nothing of desert chivalry and saw in Glubb Pasha only a treasonous foreigner who had declined to order his troops to charge straight across Israel. By last fall, when Britain tried to rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad...
...Premier Bulganin last week dropped a strong hint that Moscow "would like to have relations with Pakistan no less friendly than those with India" and might even be willing to give it some economic aid. It was a pity, he added, that Pakistan's partnership in the Baghdad pact had brought it "to difficult internal straits." Pravda made similar overtures to Turkey, Pakistan's partner in the Baghdad pact...
...reached total agreement, e.g., to continue to press for the reunification of Germany, to continue to regard an attack on Berlin as an attack upon the U.S. and Britain. Here and there they reached total disagreement, e.g., the U.S. turned down Britain's request that it join the Baghdad Pact of anti-Communist countries in the Middle East; the U.S. declined to intervene in Britain's oil row with Saudi Arabia at the remote Buraimi Oasis (TIME...