Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Thailand John Peurifoy, a career man who has ironed out messy situations in Greece and Guatemala, will take on, as an additional task, that of U.S. representative on the SEATO defense council at Bangkok. The job, equivalent to the NATO post to which ex-Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins was recently appointed, may become even more important, since the SEATO area, more than Europe, depends on the U.S. for its defense...
...Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
...Bevanites, the German Social-Democrats and the French neutralists, really want to see the Americans retire to Kansas while the Russians retain their grip on Eastern Europe. Western leadership, then, faces a dual task. The point has to be patiently and consistently put across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western people themselves have to be reminded that the Communist objective is, and was throughout the Malenkov era, nothing less than domination of a Eurasia uncluttered...
Nonsense About Neutrality. There were two items on the agenda: 1) the Paris accords proper, restoring German sovereignty and inviting rearmament in NATO, and 2) the much-abused Saar agreement, signed by Adenauer and Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference...
...year-old Premier Nuri es-Said, who was an officer in T. E. Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...