Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not hesitate to contain and/or oppose it if it conflicted with the free world's cold-war defenses; 4) world Communism had been shown that the U.S. was not deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser...
...spread, and could continue to spread, lies and hatred of the West, but the paradox of an infinitely complicated situation was that the U.S., though resisting him, had in the last resort to stand ready to save Nasser from the consequences of his own adventurism-from Communism itself...
...loyal Iraqis to fight under his banner alongside his own British-trained Arab Legion, once the best Arab fighting force in the Middle East. When it became apparent that there were no loyal forces left in Iraq, Hussein told his people in a broadcast, "The ambitions of international Communism have reached our country through certain Arab leaders who gave themselves to the devil...
...week's end Hussein announced that he had appealed to the U.S. to send troops to help him in a battle of survival against Syria and Egypt and "agents of international Communism," and talked of marching northward into Iraq to reverse the revolution. But Prime Minister Macmillan had made it clear that the British had sent the Red Devils to protect Hussein, King of Jordan, not Hussein, the head of the now-dissolved Arab Union with Iraq...
Nuri boasted that he was no idealist but a practical patriot who aligned his country with the West as the only way of keeping the country's oil flowing and Communism out. "History would curse me," he once said, "if I appealed to the emotions of the masses at the expense of the national security." Nuri let the powerful sheiks get richer and richer, but in recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board...