Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base in Kenya). The new force is designed primarily to deal with trouble or brush-fire rebellions in such oil-rich domains as Bahrein and Kuwait or in the string of other British protectorates to whose defense Britain is committed by treaty. An attack on Britain's Baghdad Pact allies-Turkey, Iran. Iraq and Pakistan-would require a far wider response than Aden could provide...
Nine months ago, in his eagerness to achieve "reunification" with Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party, devious Pietro Nenni formally broke off the decade-old "unity of action" pact between his Socialists and Italy's Communist Party. While the skeptical claimed he would never make a final break with the Communists, and the hopeful predicted he would, Nenni skillfully teased the Social Democrats and did neither. Last week Nenni settled all doubts. "Any social progress must necessarily enjoy the support of the Communists," proclaimed...
Despite such quiet programing, there have been occasions of high drama in the history of Vatican radio. In 1938, four hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
...continued that our military assistance measures, particularly the Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine, had not been sufficient to meet Soviet tactics of "leapfrogging and infiltration." In the Middle East, he asserted, the Russians were taking advantage of a "new critical restlesness" which led people "to make comparisons with other ways of life and standards of justice." The United States, he warned, was coming off second-best in these comparisons...
...political role of the Turkish army within Western policy has not been confined to Soviet containment alone. Through the controversial Baghdad Past, Turkey has been bound since 1955 with Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan in a Moslem alliance directed toward providing stability in the Middle East. What stability the pact has provided, however, is subject to debate--and many have criticized the alliance for stirring up fresh trouble rather than calming tension. Thus Turkey's role as chief representative of Western policies in the Middle East has put her in a position where today she is surrounded by enemies on virtually...