Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some delicate diplomatic bargaining remained to be done. Would the Cypriot republic be a member of the British Commonwealth, or just part of the sterling bloc? Would Britain have full sovereignty over its Cyprus bases-including the right to launch military action from Cyprus without the consent of the Cypriot government? At stake was whether the British could use the base not only for NATO purposes but as a springboard in Middle East trouble spots, such as Kuwait and Oman, as Britain used it for Suez and Jordan. What would be the citizenship status of the thousands of Greek Cypriots...
...Stop the Nonsense." Having elbowed its own way in, West Germany now finds a newcomer using the same tactics as it did. Soviet-bloc nations are muscling in on the Middle East, particularly in the field of heavy construction, where the West Germans previously had a clear lead. Last December, despite the fact that West German experts were the first to make technical studies of the proposed Aswan High Dam, Nasser's United Arab Republic, in accepting Russian financial help, pledged itself to give Russia exclusively the first five years' construction work. This month Russia grabbed...
...prices to Western textile manufacturers (including West Germans), the Communists have driven Egyptian cotton exporters out of much of the European market, have thus deprived Egypt of a major source of foreign exchange and reduced her ability to import Western goods. In the first half of 1958, Soviet-bloc exports to Egypt were more than 2½ times West Germany...
...influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West Germany best able of all Western nations to match the techniques of Soviet state capitalism in the Middle East, West Germany's canny traders expect to go on giving the Soviet-bloc nations a hard run for their money -and Western competitors an even harder run for theirs...
...Communist China is Britain's best customer in the Communist bloc. Britain sold $75 million in goods to Red China last year-$8,400,000 more than to the Soviet Union...