Word: maintaining
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...troops out of Lebanon if the government so requested. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles began the week in London at a conference of remaining Baghdad Pact members, and after two phone calls to the President, committed the U.S. to "full partnership" to help Britain, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran "maintain collective security to resist aggression direct and indirect." At midweek Dulles was back in Washington to define U.S. summit conference aims at his press conference (see below), was off again this week for Brazil. He all but crisscrossed with Good-Will Ambassador Milton Eisenhower, just back from Central America with...
...Gardens residence of British Host Selwyn Lloyd, they told Dulles that they would have to go home this time with stronger proof of U.S. solidarity. Even when Dulles said, "The nations here do not have to have any fear whatsoever that the U.S., even at great risk, would not maintain the integrity of our friends," the Mideast diplomats were unappeased. Next day, passing up the buffet lunch, Dulles drafted a few sentences and cleared them in two fast telephone calls to President Eisenhower...
...more muted note. He welcomed Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting on the Middle East-even though in the first Russian proposal for five-power talks there was no mention of inviting any Arab country. Said Nasser: "At the same time that we maintain mobilization and carry arms, we also call for peace . . . We are tired of the cold war, we are tired of military groupings, we are tired of the division of the world into two camps . . . Indeed, we are tired of the daily threat...
...cable, Kubitschek called together 400 top-ranking military men to explain Brazil's relations with the U.S. "We recognize," he said, "the heavy burden borne by the U.S. in the common battle for the defense of the West and our civilization's highest values. We must maintain with the great North American republic the indestructible relations which have become our common heritage and which must not be weakened...
...flow. Aside from a moderate jump in tanker charter rates and a flurry of ship sales which in three weeks boosted prices 10-20%, all was calm. Iraq's revolutionary government took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...