Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
Moscow denounced the pact as "a stab in the back" for the Arab League countries. The U.S., which had carefully taken no hand in the negotiations, was pleased. The pact strengthens the Middle East's "northern tier" (the defense line from Turkey to Pakistan). Pakistan, hitherto isolated on the northern tier's right wing, exulted. "It's good to be a bridge instead of feeling like a chasm," said a Pakistan official. The Pakistani were talking of including Iran too, which like Turkey and Pakistan is Moslem but not Arab...
...cold war. Egypt's pique at Iraq's "betrayal" was shared most loudly by oil-rich Saudi Arabia, whose ruling Al Saud family hates Iraq's Hashemite royal house. Some other members of the Arab League-notably Jordan and Lebanon-are eying the Turkish-Iraqi pact furtively, and under the right circumstances might be persuaded to join. Iraq's bold step has all but finished the Arab League...
...heart and collapse into Communism. Then, indeed, there might be a general conflict, with the Western powers attempting to rescue Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Burma and even Japan. Quemoy and Matsu have one meaning in the U.S. nightmare, another in the British nightmare. Dulles' main task at the Manila Pact conference in Bangkok this week will be to state the Asian danger in terms that will bring Britain and other participating nations to understand why the long-range U.S. responsibility calls for present firmness even on such small parcels of contention as Matsu and Quemoy...
...pact that brought them together is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (which the U.S. State Department would like to have called the Manila Pact, though popular usage persistently makes it SEATO). It was formally ratified and put into force in Manila last week, uniting three stoutly anti-Communist Asian nations-Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan-with powerful overseas friends: the U.S., Britain. France, Australia and New Zealand. Meeting in Bangkok, the eight will...