Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months since the U.S. Secretary of State made this statement, allied diplomats have worked to turn a vague desire into a concrete fact. Their first reward came in February, when Turkey and Iraq signed a mutual-defense pact in Baghdad. Britain, representing Cyprus, joined in April, Pakistan in July. Last week Iran signed up, and the "Northern Tier" became one of the important realities of international politics...
...Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow, but the cautious young Shah posponed the visit. Said he last week: "The neutrality and peaceful intentions of the Iranian nation in two world wars did not save our country from aggression." Foreign Minister Molotov thundered back: "The pact ... is inconsistent with the peace and security of the Middle East and runs against the friendly relations between Soviet Russia and Iran...
...than Party Chairman Suzuki. The reunited party's line: preservation of the MacArthur Constitution (which outlaws war), nationalization of some industries (e.g., coal, electric power), diplomatic relations with Red China and the Soviet Union, gradual steps toward replacing the Japan-U.S. military alliance with some sort of pact between Japan, the U.S., China and Russia...
...against Israel's purchase of Mystère IV jets from France. Nasser insisted that the Czech trade was strictly "a one-shot deal," and no Communist technicians would accompany the arms. The Westerners were only partly reassured; the British tartly reminded Nasser that the 1954 Anglo-Egyptian pact calls for the reactivation by Britain of Suez Canal air bases in the event of an attack on Turkey, i.e., on NATO. Said a British diplomat: "We don't want to find MIGs on those airfields...
...troops of the Hoa Hao sect, but Diem's troops scattered them. Said Bao Dai a fortnight ago: "I've been accused of betraying my country. But it is not I who have betrayed my country . . . It is the big powers-the men who signed the Geneva pact...