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...British there were other embarrassments. Cyprus, its last major Middle East bastion since the British were forced out of Egypt and Suez, is still restlessly demanding self-determination. And as Lloyd headed east to Pakistan, his plane stopped at Bahrein Island, a rich oil sheikdom under British protection, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Foreign Minister Lloyd's cavalcade was met with a shower of stones from a rioting mob shouting, "Down with Britain...
Defense Position. How strong a bastion will METO prove in the Mid-East's shifting sands? Truth is that METO is more a geographic than a military entity, more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...
...HYRC's persistent objections have finally made its real position clear: by their own definition, the only vacant space is to their left. Not only the Crimson, but even the New Conservative Club, and that last bastion of radicalism, the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, are united in "the energetic bugling from the left." While the HYRC asked (December 1) for "ad hoc agreements" between political clubs, this is exactly what the Forum's constitution provides. Their opposition to the Forum has been conspicuous so far only for its malleability. Perhaps the group's members are interested in the aims...
Only yesterday Turkey had seemed a solid rock in the free world's sea of uncertainties. Now it is a bothered bastion. Its economy is sick and its government is flirting with bankruptcy. Its brief but intense experience with democracy is afflicted with a return of the familiar weapons of autocracy...
...check the spread of trouble, Washington last week sent one of its best troubleshooters to warn Nasser against the Communists' poisoned apples. Britain sent its top soldier to impose order on its East Mediterranean bastion (see below). Russia, meanwhile, sent a polite note to all three Western powers to express its belief that any nation can buy weapons wherever it pleases. To prove its point, Russia already was busy offering its wares to Syria and Saudi Arabia. In other words, this talk of disarmament and the "spirit of Geneva" was all right in its place and time...