Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual use by Moscow "volunteers." In this uneasy circumstance, Syria's anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact-particularly Turkey and Iraq-met and agreed to fight "subversion" from Syria. The Turks announced "routine" army maneuvers near the Syrian border and flew their Acting Foreign Minister to London to discuss "the Syrian situation" with Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Did they intend to put Syria...
...against Turkey and Iraq. Just in case Syria's anti-Communist neighbors were genuinely worried about a foray from Syria, the U.S. State Department announced that it would view "with the utmost gravity" any threat to "the territorial integrity or political independence" of any member of the Baghdad Pact. This was also meant to remove from Turkey and Iraq any pretext for moving into Syria...
...injuring hundreds. (Radio Cairo, greatly magnifying the casualties, boasted of open civil war in Iraq.) Nuri es-Said jailed five opposition chieftains, including a former justice minister and a former president of the Chamber of Deputies, for appealing to King Feisal II to withdraw from the Baghdad Pact. The 21-year-old King opened Parliament, in a speech from the throne that Nuri had written for him, by declaring martial law in all Iraq, and incidentally, in usual Arab fashion, called for the "elimination of Israel." When no fewer than 40 Deputies clamored to speak, to debate Iraq...
Poland enjoyed 18 all-too-brief years of peaceful independence, but Hitler and Stalin finally did it in. Poland had a non-aggression pact with Russia dating from 1929, and after Hitler's rise it contracted alliances with the West and signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with Germany. But in 1939 Molotov and Hitler got together, signed a secret protocol arranging to attack Poland simultaneously from both sides and to partition it out of existence. After a 26-day fight, Poland was no more. Said Molotov: "Nothing is left of that monstrous bastard, the Versailles Treaty...
Syria has stood midway between the pro-Western and the Anti-Western Arab states. Recently she has listed menacingly towards the Communist side. The Syrian nation is bordered on the North by Turkey, on the East by Iraq, both states of the pro-Western Bagdhad pact, of which Britain is a member. To the South is unstable Jordan, to the West solidly pro-Western Lebanon. For sixty miles on the Southeast Syria borders Israel. Syria's economy is weak, but she holds a strong card in lying squarely across the vital pipelines leading from Iraq to the West...