Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer-Host Robert Montgomery, TV aide-de-camp to President Eisenhower, rang down the curtain on his hour-long NBC dramatic show after a seven-year run. The last play was Faust '57, a disjointed modern treatment of the classic tale about a pact with the Devil-and an ironic choice, since the program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season...
...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, as he stepped off his plane into Karachi's 104° heat. Only seven months ago, demonstrating in Karachi's streets, Pakistanis were cursing the name of Britain, Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid was declaring Iraq would boycott any meeting of the Baghdad Pact attended by Britain, and just about everyone was saying that the Baghdad Pact was dead. But last week as the five members of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran) met for the first time since the British attack on Egypt, Lloyd and Nuri asSaid were all smiles. Said...
...another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that did not compromise their independence...
Unsolicited Praise. The British brought gifts. Lloyd lost no time in announcing that Britain would provide nearly $6,000,000 in economic aid to develop the pact communications system. But the British had obviously become junior member of the pact, welcome but not encouraged to make too much noise. Undisputedly senior was the U.S., which emphasized the importance it attached to the meeting by sending Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson and Air Force Chief of Staff General Nate Twining, who is soon to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
First day's business was the ceremonial vote to accept the U.S. offer to join the pact's military committee, making the U.S. a full member in all but name, and loosing a flood of unsolicited praise for the U.S. Said Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose country depends on the U.S. for 40% of the government's budget: "They have made no attempt to bind us to them in chains or strings, and weak though we are, negligible though we may be in military might, they have had the vision and large-heartedness...