Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forget Nasser. The State Department and the British Foreign Office, not yet abandoning all hope of Kassem, put Kassem's action down to his desire to express solidarity with the Arab world. By withdrawing from the pact, Kassem freed himself from Nasser's accusation that Iraq was still allied to the "imperialist" West. To his assembled editors last week, Kassem suggested: "Forget Nasser. Do not waste time replying to criticism from abroad that does not bother...
...gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told privately: Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact...
...Desires. It may be that Kassem withdrew from the Baghdad Pact only to quiet Nasser. But the more worrisome likelihood is that Kassem is responding to another pressure on him. The Reds, in the guise of helping him in his consolidation of power, have made four demands on him. The first was to denounce the Baghdad Pact, as he has just done. The second was to purge his army and his administration of people whom the Communists object to. This too is going on. The Reds demand vengeance against all who participated in the Mosul rebellion (TIME, March...
LONDON, March 25--Britain is still willing to sell arms to Iraq despite Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's decision to pull his country out of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, a Foreign Office spokesman announced today...
Iraq's withdrawal from the pact means it no longer is entitled to military help help from the other members--Britain, Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan--in case it is attacked...