Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have shown that they can lick the strongest of their neighbors. They have shown up the extent of Soviet penetration in the Middle East by capturing huge stockpiles of tanks, guns and motorized equipment. They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session...
...Amman, and of a role in the Arab world searching for a hero. It was a first warning to the few who read it. He began covertly, then more openly, to play the neutralist game of East against West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced, the U.S.-sponsored Baghdad Pact. He refused to sign a military-aid agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made...
When the British tried to hustle Jordan into the Baghdad Pact, Nasser turned loose his Voice of the Arabs on the Jordan mobs, helped get Britain's Glubb Pasha expelled from Jordan. Then the West learned that Nasser had contracted to buy not $60 million worth of arms (as he indicated) but $240 million worth; he had mortgaged Egypt's cotton crop to the Communists for years to come. Later Nasser also triumphantly announced that the deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan...
...been produced in the Aden Protectorate, or in Yemen, but Egyptian visitors and Russian technicians (trickling into Yemen in twos and threes, ostensibly to service arms received under the 1956 Yemen-Soviet pact) have told the Imam how oil enriches Saudi Arabia. Claiming sovereignty over the neighboring protectorate, whose borders he has never formally recognized, the Imam has collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved...
Lebanon, after experimenting with an ultranationalist regime last year, has installed a solidly pro-U.S. government that shows signs of being the most stable in years, and has accepted a small delivery of U.S. arms. It stayed out of the Baghdad Pact, but has given support to the Eisenhower Doctrine...