Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House steps. When the visitor asked: "How are you?" Ike, aware of big-eared reporters, cupped his hand and jokingly whispered his reply. During lunch (steak and apple pie). Britain's Eden remarked that the U.S. handling of Marshal Bulganin's request for a non-aggression pact (TIME, Feb. 6) had struck him as "admirable...
...total agreement, e.g., to continue to press for the reunification of Germany, to continue to regard an attack on Berlin as an attack upon the U.S. and Britain. Here and there they reached total disagreement, e.g., the U.S. turned down Britain's request that it join the Baghdad Pact of anti-Communist countries in the Middle East; the U.S. declined to intervene in Britain's oil row with Saudi Arabia at the remote Buraimi Oasis (TIME...
...Ambassador Georgy Zarubin was ushered into the White House at 11:30 a.m. last Wednesday to keep his well-heralded appointment with the President. A moment later, standing before Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles, he began reading off Marshal Bulganin's invitation to a 20-year nonaggression pact between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., pausing at the end of each sentence so the interpreter could translate...
...Baghdad Pact. Eden will urge the U.S. to join. He hopes thus to bring the U.S., its power, its money and its prestige fully into the Middle East, and at Britain's side. The U.S. is for the pact, but in view of the Arabs' mixed reaction to it, doesn't believe the U.S. should get involved...
...abandoned hope for Nasser, despite his purchase of Soviet arms. Britain proposes to give him all the assistance he needs, both military and economic, but with a time limit of say six months. Then, the British argue, Nasser should feel reasonably secure, might be willing to join the Baghdad pact. More important, he might sit down at a negotiating table with Israel...