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...face of the Russian peace offensive and the United States' seeming intention to reduce its military manpower, Europe has shown a stedily decreasing desire to act as a buffer zone for a "Fortress America." European leaders are finding it difficult to convince their people and themselves that a great manpower build-up on their part will place them in an advantageous position to maintain national sovereignty...
From the time of Alexander the Great, the road to Indian conquest has led down from the north through the Khyber Pass. To keep the encroaching Russians away from this gateway to their empire, the British built up the buffer state of Afghanistan across the Khyber's mountainous northern approaches. Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last...
...were virtual prisoners of their Prime Ministers, whose usurped power was handed down through the Rana family for generation after generation. A revolution sparked by neighboring India in 1950 toppled the Ranas and restored the Kings, under the benevolent protection of Jawaharlal Nehru, who needs mountainous Nepal as a buffer against Communist China...
...bloody cannonade at Gaza (TIME, April 16), he achieved a stoppage in the fighting within 24 hours (see below). Though Hammarskjold himself was characteristically uninformative in public, Cairo reported that he won Nasser's agreement to a plan for reducing border tensions, mainly by creating a buffer zone extending 550 yards on either side of the frontier, within which U.N. military representatives would patrol. Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion had turned down such an idea of Nasser's before, but now was reported agreeable. From Ben-Gurion, Hammarskjold next wanted a written pledge that no troops...
...whole pattern of Western defense in the cold war. It is Britain's command post for the Middle East; it guards vital sources of oil supply; it lies along the best line of communication between Europe and Asia; it is in an area where there is no satellite buffer zone on the Soviet Union's border. For those reasons the U.S. State Department has been watching anxiously the dispute between Britain and Cypriot nationalists who want enosis (union) with Greece. Behind the scenes the U.S. has been urging both sides to reach an agreement...