Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President last week got from Congress a stirring reminder of the support he can evoke by strong leadership. There is no reason to think that only desperate expedients and emergency measures will draw such support. Feb. 23, when Secretary Dulles goes to Bangkok for a meeting of the Manila pact nations, might be an appropriate date to start a forward policy in Asia...
After seven days of friendly talk in Baghdad, Premiers Adnan Menderes of Turkey and Nuri es-Said of Iraq jointly announced last week their decision to sign a mutual defense pact. Washington and London were pleased: the joining of oil-rich Iraq to NATO member Turkey is the first major break in the log jam of Arab neutrality. But in Cairo, the news caused consternation...
...therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny." With considerable pride the President ran through the gains in the struggle during 1954, e.g., the Western European Union agreements, the Manila pact, the settlement on Trieste, the solution of the Iranian oil and Suez disputes, the inter-American declaration against Communism...
...last week to neighboring Iraq, on the first visit of a Turkish head of state to Baghdad since Iraq freed itself of the Ottomans in 1918. He got a royal welcome. Menderes' mission: to persuade Iraq to join its fellow Moslems in the U.S.-blessed Turkish-Pakistan defense pact, designed to protect the Middle East's "northern tier" from Russia (TIME, March 1). Iraq already has long standing commercial and diplomatic ties with Britain, and two large R.A.F. bases...
...restless intellectually as he was physically, Malraux roundly denounced Communism after the Soviet-Nazi pact, became just as disgusted with the paralysis of France's postwar government when he tried his hand as a De Gaulle lieutenant after the war. "To know how foul it really is," he wrote, "one must be married to it, and be frustrated as a man is by a wife with whom he is hopelessly coupled." Convinced that De Gaulle was the only man capable of changing this foulness, he became his chief adviser and closest political intimate. For six years, this curious alliance...