Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the areas of foreign-policy disagreement seemed to have shrunk in both size and importance, and the two governments had reached some new common ground. Especially gratifying to the British were two major decisions: ¶ The U.S. will join the military committee of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey), as the British have long urged. Eisenhower & Co. made the decision shortly before the conference, announced it to the British as a highly pleasant surprise. The U.S. will not become a full member of the pact (as the British would like even better), but will...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...great powers," i.e., the West, to renounce "all attempts to involve these countries in military blocs." Among the reasons for the U.S. rejection: if the Middle East states feel themselves threatened, they have every right to join "with other nations in legitimate collective-security arrangements," e.g., the Baghdad Pact, and the U.S. wants no part of a big-power attempt, "as suggested by the U.S.S.R.," to abrogate this right. Net effect of the U.S. reply: to put Moscow on notice that the U.S. intends to go ahead with the Eisenhower Doctrine...
Macmillan has other topics he is anxious to discuss with Ike. He would like the U.S. to join the Baghdad Pact, at least as a member of the military committee. (The U.S. will probably refuse, on the ground that to do so would alienate other Arab countries which the U.S. is trying to influence through the more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain...
...action--disclosed today and hailed by the British--is sure to elate all the Middle East members of the five-nation pact...