Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Joseph Wirth, 76, Chancellor of two German governments (1921 and 1922), signer of the German-Russian friendship pact at Rapallo in 1922, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize for 1955; of a heart ailment; in Freiburg, Germany...
...Jordan-held sector of the Holy City still lay in shock after riots in which at least 56 Arabs died protesting the ill-timed British proposal that their country join the new Baghdad pact for a Middle East anti-Communist front. The U.N.'s patient mediator, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, announced that both the Israelis and Egyptians are still blocking the latest plan for a border truce, and are both violating the armistice regularly. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, making common cause of their enmity to the Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt...
Last February Iraq became the first of the new Arab nations to break away from Middle East isolationism and to cast its lot openly with the West in the Baghdad pact. That decision was largely made by one man, Premier Nuri es-Said, 67, onetime officer in Ottoman Turkey's army, who is regarded by many as the ablest statesman in the Middle East. Last week Nuri was busy putting together a new administration. In one of those sudden flare-ups that happen in the Middle East (and rate a baffling, brief paragraph in the U.S. press), Nuri...
...firmly convinced that Iraq's foreign policy, its new commitment to the West, has now been shaped for a long time to come. "Look," he says, "the Baghdad pact goes on whether I die or retire or get voted out." He added characteristically: "Before we signed it, I got the approval of every ex-Prime Minister [Iraq has half a dozen]. Any Prime Minister we would get to replace me would be already committed to the pact...
...German embassy attache in Tokyo until he was called to war duty, details Sorge's coups for Communism. Sorge and his accomplices told the Russians: ¶That Japan had rejected a German proposal for an alliance against the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, which edged Russia into the pact with Hitler, thus triggering World...