Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda, March 22--President Eisenhower has told Prime Minister Macmillan the United States is willing to join the Baghdad Pact's Military Committee in a move to check the spread of communism in the Middle East...
Back in Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many...
...informal; neither the requesting nation nor the U.S. has to sign a new pact, and sensitive nationalists are not required to line up on the U.S. side...
...week to a gathering of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Canberra, "SEATO has become firmly established and has made a positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates high in the U.S. estimation. Just how high can be measured better...
Electioneering in the industrial city of Kanpur, Nehru explained the British and American U.N. vote to condemn India's seizure of Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) as simply a reward to Pakistan for its membership in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact. The intent, said Nehru, was "to make India change her independent policy." Then, amidst wild cheers, he cried defiantly: "India will not change her stand on Kashmir one iota under any threat...