Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Bankers want no part of the Western-sponsored Baghdad pact. Only a few are Communists, but all are discontented. In caves and U.N. refugee camps squat 450,000 dispossessed Palestine refugees, idle and restless, spoiling for trouble. With the encouragement of Egyptian agitators and Saudi Arabian bribes, they have challenged the whole basis of Britain's position in its last stronghold on the strategic Middle East land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa...
Voting with Stones. Jordan's smiling young Harrow-educated Hashemite King, the 20-year-old Hussein, needed help. Faced with overwhelming opposition to the King's attempt to join the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the palace politicians tried to call off the spring balloting which the King had hastily promised in the midst of last month's rioting...
Demonstrations, too coordinated to be spontaneous, began outside Jerusalem's mosques, spread all over the country. In the city sacred to three religions, mobs pushed through the Damascus Gate, singing and shouting slogans against the Baghdad pact and for immediate elections. Once again Palestinian refugees were in the mob's forefront. Gangs attacked the U.S. consulate, and for the second time in a month tore down the Stars and Stripes and trampled it in the street: Marine guards and Vice Consul Slator Blackiston drove the hooligans away with tear gas and pistols...
...with such street parliamentarians as Mossadegh had taught the world that mob strength in the Middle East can be exaggerated, the latest events in Jordan were treated more gravely in the West than the December risings. The British shelved their strategy of pushing for Arab allegiance to the Baghdad pact. London rushed its paratroopers to Cyprus partly out of the suspicion that the West Bank dissidents had penetrated the Arab Legion to a point where this strong force, once the key to Jordan's stability, might cease to be a reliable instrument of British policy...
...Communist rivals. The present party was born in 1920, when Leon Blum rebelled against accepting direction from the Kremlin. By 1936 the Socialists had 149 seats in the Assembly, and Blum's Popular Front government ruled France with Communist support. The two parted angrily over the Hitler-Stalin pact, made up when Hitler's invasion of Russia made resistance fighters of them all, stayed uneasy friends until Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier threw the Communists out of his government...