Word: iraq
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Turkey clamored for help in its feud with the Greeks over Cyprus. Iran called for U.S. missiles and more economic aid. Pakistan was particularly annoyed because the U.S. had just proposed $225 million aid to India, its neutralist neighbor and rival claimant of Kashmir. Iraq, the Baghdad Pact's one Arab member, demanded action on the Palestine question -"the core of instability and restlessness in the Middle East." All four, who have dubbed themselves the "area" members of the Baghdad Pact to distinguish themselves from "donors" (meaning Britain and the U.S.), wanted more military and economic...
Reassured and mollified, the area members stilled their differences in a communique expressing "satisfaction" with the U.S. position. Even Iraq's Nuri asSaid, who had gone to Ankara threatening to withdraw Iraq from the pact unless he got its backing for a Palestine solution, was persuaded by Dulles and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd not to raise the issue publicly. As the delegates departed, an Iraqi aide conceded: "We are much happier than we were, thanks to Mr. Dulles." John Foster Dulles flew home with accomplishment recorded...
...unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
Five hundred miles southwest of them, in Turkey's capital, the statesmen of six nations-Britain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the U.S.-gathered this week for the fourth meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council. Among those assembled in Ankara's still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force...
...Ankara this week would probably not argue that the Baghdad Pact has been an unqualified success. It has aroused vast antagonism to the West-and to Turkey-among hysterically "anti-imperialist" Arab nations, and its members' hopes that more Arab states may one day be persuaded to join (Iraq is the only Arab member) still remain just hopes. The U.S.'s refusal so far to become a full member-largely because this would prompt an immediate Israeli demand for a separate mutual-defense treaty with the eyes...