Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour of his own victory, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser put on the appearance of a reasonable man: "Why does America get mad when free men of Iraq say they will protect their agreements, obligations and the peace?" Although the new Iraqi regime quickly signed a defense pact "against aggression" with Nasser, it promised to keep oil flowing to the West. Yet Nasser himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through the Mediterranean. The unexpected landings in Lebanon and Jordan so unnerved...
Waiting in Vain. The revolt had been timed for the early morning departure of King Feisal, the Crown Prince, and Nuri asSaid for Istanbul, to attend an emergency session of the Baghdad Pact-concerned not about Iraq, but revolt-torn Lebanon...
...President and Premier were standing at the airport. The honor guard was drawn up, the bands ready to play-but the Iraqi guests never arrived. In alarm, Turkish President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes took off for their capital at Ankara to consider their next move. Another pact partner, Iran, closed its border and alerted its army. But these were but feeble protective responses. Without Iraq the Baghdad Pact would be meaningless...
Under the leadership of Strongman Nuri asSaid, Iraq was the only Arab nation to align itself firmly with the West. In signing the Baghdad Pact, it united with Britain and the Moslem nations of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan in common defense against Communism. The U.S. refused to join the pact, but worked in close military liaison with...
...heading off into a neutralists' no man's land. But both Premier Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Averoff insisted otherwise. The Turks described the Greek meeting with Tito and Nasser as attempted blackmail. The Greeks replied that they were merely conferring with a next-door neighbor and Balkan Pact ally (Yugoslavia) and a Mediterranean trading partner (Egypt, where 100,000 Greeks live). The Greeks were undoubtedly looking around for new friends, but this was hardly proof that they were running out on old ones...