Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world sick with dark quarrels and deadly stratagems the friendly mission of the Ambassadors Eisenhower glowed beacon bright. But when the world arose after the Sabbath for another week of work, the bright rays were already obscured. Nasserist flames had burst out with explosive violence in Iraq, most friendly and most prosperous of the West's Arab neighbors in the Middle East; King Feisal's government had been thrown down, its stout-hearted leaders were either dead or defeated refugees, and Nassermen were in control. President Eisenhower sat down with the National Security Council to study one more...
Their answer was no, but next day the President began canvassing among neighbors for possible outside help. At a palace interview, Iraq's chargé d'affaires reportedly offered Lebanon a defense treaty under which pro-Western Iraqi troops could be brought into the country...
...alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East, and defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of those Arab leaders in Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser...
...birth of the United Arab Republic last February, Egyptian and Syrian leaders acted as if the union of their two countries, which do not even share a common border, were the most natural thing in the world. The U.A.R.'s propagandists denounced the rival Hashemite Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan* as a "sham" that would soon collapse, while theirs was a merger of peoples bound by history, blood and religion. Impulsive Syrians, who voted almost unanimously for Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first President of the new republic, thought of him as an Arab and only incidentally...
Died. Alexander III, 89, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, longtime (since 1931) head of the Greek Orthodox community in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and part of Turkey, spiritual leader of thousands who have migrated from the Middle East to the U.S. and Latin America; in Damascus...