Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reiterated cry that Britain, France and the U.S. had instigated World War II and sent the Nazis marching toward Russia. Britons remember too well when they stood alone against Hitler, and when Hitler felt safe to move against them because he had protected his rear by an infamous pact with Communist Russia...
Britain, fed up with trying to please or appease Egypt, decided that proven friends are best, and made a big fuss over its new Baghdad pact (METO) partners, particularly its old partner-in-oil Iraq. By proving that it pays, militarily and economically, to be friends, the British hope to recruit as another METO prospect, Jordan, whose national budget and Arab Legion they underwrite at the rate of $24 million a year. The British are determined to show Egypt's Nasser that flirting with Communists is not the way to get arms or anything else from the West. The British...
Unities & Divisions. With the dispatch of men who are agreed, the five quickly organized themselves into the "Permanent Council of the Baghdad pact," picked Baghdad as their permanent seat, set up a permanent secretariat and standing military and economic committees. There would be no joint command staff like NATO's; the council's permanent deputies would simply be the respective ambassadors stationed in Baghdad...
...time, said Pakistan's Chaudhri Mohammed AH, that "the observer made some observations." Iran's Hussein Ala was more blunt: "We would warmly welcome the early accession of the U.S." For the U.S., unwilling to join a pact with a country (Iraq) which is still officially at war with Israel, Gallman could only reaffirm the U.S.'s continued encouragement and support...
Defense Position. How strong a bastion will METO prove in the Mid-East's shifting sands? Truth is that METO is more a geographic than a military entity, more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...