Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well before his plane touched down in Turkey for the Baghdad Pact council meeting it had become clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was going to have to do something more than his official role as U.S. "observer" suggested. Some of the pact's Middle East members had decided that there was not much point in belonging to a club that offered few, if any, tangible benefits. What Iran wanted from the pact, its delegates made clear, was U.S. economic and military aid-and plenty...
Iraq's grey eminence, ex-Premier Nuri asSaid, who had risked most in making Iraq the only Arab nation to join the pact, came to Ankara with more specific demands. The U.S., Nuri insisted, must make up its mind to become a full member of the Baghdad Pact. He also wanted the U.S. to espouse a settlement for Palestine which would cut Israel back to its 1947 borders. Nuri hinted that if his demands were not met, Iraq's interest in staying in the pact would be scant indeed...
Five hundred miles southwest of them, in Turkey's capital, the statesmen of six nations-Britain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the U.S.-gathered this week for the fourth meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council. Among those assembled in Ankara's still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force...
Last week when the Soviet Foreign Office, on the eve of the Baghdad Pact meeting, cried that Turkey's acceptance of such missiles was likely to have "dangerous consequences," sturdy Adnan Menderes did not even bother to comment. Says one U.S. official, noting with rueful admiration that Turkey's 470,000-man army constitutes the biggest force contributed to NATO by any nation: "With most of our allies, the problem is to get them to build up to minimum strength. With the Turks, the problem is to get them to stop somewhere...
...this rebuff, Félix Gaillard promptly suspended discussion of the military and economic aid pact that France has been negotiating with Tunisia. Simultaneously, he dispatched a pair of personal aides-one of them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...