Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey (pop. 24,110,000). Hates and fears Russia, whether Russia is Communist or not. A secularized Mos lem state, very friendly to the U.S., Turkey is the eastern anchor of NATO. Its 500,000-man army is the area's best. Sides with Britain over Cyprus. Turks dislike Nasser, chiefly because he opened the door to the Russians in the Middle East...
...from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their use of force. In short, so long as Britain, France and Israel had not purged themselves of their aggressions, they were on their own. But Eisenhower had also served notice on the Kremlin in a White House statement: the U.S. would not allow...
From the British and French ambassadors in Jerusalem came word that the U.S. had informed their countries that it "would not feel compelled to take action" in case of a Soviet attack on their Suez and Cyprus forces. Accordingly, they told Ben-Gurion they could promise him no support if he insisted on holding Sinai. From Washington Ambassador Abba Eban telephoned urging moderation and reporting that President Eisenhower was sending a personal message asking the Prime Minister to back down so as to give the Russians no pretext for intervention...
...this unresolved note, the Cabinet adjourned. In the House of Commons, the Opposition hammered at the government on the difference between what Eden said and what he did. Eden had said Britain was protecting the canal; but the British broadcasts from Cyprus were telling Egyptians: "You have committed a sin, that is, you placed your confidence in Nasser and his lies." Said Labor's Nye Bevan: "Here you have not a military action to separate Israeli and Egyptian troops. Here you have a declaration of war against the Egyptian government in the most terrible terms...
...byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake. Thanks to both foresight and luck, the Times had its own coverage wherever the news was breaking; chance found its Military Analyst Hanson W. Baldwin in Cyprus just as the British and French served their ultimatum...