Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There may never be a military pact as such Nehru said as much in a speech the other day, citing India's policy of nonalignment as the force which kept India from "drifting" and losing her self-respect. Nehru has always been reluctant to give up the Ghandian ideal of non-violence and non-militarism, and to obligate India to fight for another nation would be an admission of the final defeat of this ideal...
...nominate George Romney for our next Secretary of State. Now that he has influenced the Big Three to bring out compact cars, possibly he could influence the Big Four to bring out a compact pact...
Emboldened by the new pact with the U.S., Iran's government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...
Undermined by the twin Communist weapons of chaos and subversion, Iraq, until recently the West's strongest ally in the Middle East, is in real danger of becoming a Soviet satellite. Already the new Iraqi government has withdrawn from the Baghdad Pact, driven Britain's R.A.F. from its Habbaniyah base near Baghdad. Unless the slide toward Communism is halted, the Soviet Union will penetrate the very heart of the Middle East, outflank staunchly pro-Western Turkey and increasingly shaky Iran. Encamped at the head of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S.R. could then render the rest of the Middle...
...value of the principle of collective security has been attested to by a liberal borrowing of its principles by the present administration. Unfortunately, the case for SEATO or the United States supported Baghdad Pact was not so clear cut at NATO; in forming a similar type of alliance which formally committed us to Chiang and Syngman Rhee, Dulles diplomacy may have been conducted with more frantic zeal than wisdom...