Word: meto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...METO was born last week in Baghdad...
...Hussein Ala arrived patched with adhesive tape where the revolver, hurled by a frustrated assassin, had nicked his head a fortnight ago. With Macmillan came Britain's chief military man, General Sir Gerald Templer. Turkey's bland Premier Adnan Menderes arrived last, as befitted the nation with METO's biggest army. Representing the U.S. as "observer" and backstage sponsor was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar J. Gallman and Admiral John H. Cassady, commander of all U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean...
...situation, he could not blame Nasser, said Macmillan. One effect of Nasser's deal was to "make us feel we must support our friends even more strongly than before." This meant, he indicated, more arms, more economic aid, more technical assistance for the Arab world. Britain candidly hopes METO's principal value will be in coordinating and stimulating the region's economic self-development...
Major economic aid, and military aid too, depended chiefly on the support and benevolence of the U.S., and the new METO allies were frankly counting on more of both as a price for daring the wrath and possible economic reprisals of Russia. All eyes swiveled around expectantly to silent U.S. Ambassador Gallman...
Defense Position. How strong a bastion will METO prove in the Mid-East's shifting sands? Truth is that METO is more a geographic than a military entity, more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...