Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of the chain's value was Soviet Russia's vigorous pressure against Iran's joining. For months, Soviet diplomats worked above and below ground to keep the last link from closing. "As a good neighbor," a top Soviet diplomat warned Iran, "Russia is ready to settle all pending accounts with you without fuss, but there are certain evil hands which give you a dagger to injure her face. That you must not do." Russians wined and dined Iranian officials, offered free newsprint to neutralist newspapers. Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow...
Zorlu is an ambitious, Paris-schooled diplomat who has risen swiftly to the posts of Deputy Premier and Acting Foreign Minister by his talent for improvising debt settlements, spouting statistics, and providing his boss with arguments to show that Turkey's economic situation is basically shipshape. Turkey's foreign-exchange deficits, Zorlu explains, are paltry little imbalances caused by the passing inconvenience of a couple of drought-shriveled harvests in a row. All the country needs is a "fund of maneuver," say $300 million, to see it through till the development program starts paying off around 1958. This...
Thornburg's recommendations apparently went to roost in an Ankara pigeonhole, and Diplomat Zorlu turned to the U.S. for $300 million. Zorlu's argument was spare and simple: surely the U.S. would not let a stout ally down in its hour of need. Some Washington officials used the word "blackmail...
...Communist technicians would accompany the arms. The Westerners were only partly reassured; the British tartly reminded Nasser that the 1954 Anglo-Egyptian pact calls for the reactivation by Britain of Suez Canal air bases in the event of an attack on Turkey, i.e., on NATO. Said a British diplomat: "We don't want to find MIGs on those airfields...
Shortly after Prime Minister Nehru's visit last fall to the drowsy Indo-Chinese countries of Laos and Cambodia, a British diplomat hopefully remarked that "this could be Nehru's Rubicon, the point where he must finally choose sides." Reason: Nehru was so deeply impressed by the extensive influence of Indian culture in both countries, as well as their real independence from French colonialism, that he decided on diplomatic recognition and personally appealed to Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh in neighboring North Viet Nam not to violate their frontiers...