Word: nasserism
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...Delhi there was real concern that India's neighbor Pakistan might have a revolution that would throw it into the arms of Nasser. "The time has come to re-evaluate and reassess our foreign policy," wrote Frank Moraes, biographer of Nehru and editor of the influential Indian Express newspaper chain. He referred to the danger to India from Communist China, which talks of "liberating Asia," and Communist influences on exuberant Arab nationalism. Enlarging on the dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest...
Pakistan. Though the nation's leaders were sticking by the Baghdad Pact, newspapers and public opinion showed quite an admiration for Nasser. The influential Karachi newspaper Dawn commented: "A brother with whom we may have fallen out is still a brother and nearer to us than a stranger...
...regicide in neighboring Iraq, called members of Parliament to his palace and talked to them of the "bonds linking him with his people." One advantage the Shah has over the Hashemites of the Middle East: his people are Moslem but not Arab, and are thus beyond the limits of Nasser's current ambitions. The Shah's chief internal worry is the presence of 1,000,000 Kurds. This ancient group (whose great ancestor was Saladin) spread across northern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, as well as the Soviet Caucasus. Russians employ their own Kurds to subvert the others...
Burma. Neutralist Premier U Nu wrote his friend Tito to urge Tito's friend Nasser to use "caution...
...refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria's extremist rebels...