Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting associated with British colonial power...
...unsuspecting young King and his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, 46, were getting ready to fly to Istanbul for an emergency meeting of the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact. Seeing the gathering crowd, they went outside the palace. According to the rebels, the palace guard fired into the crowd, killed 14. The soldiers returned the fire. Feisal was killed, along with Crown Prince Abdul Illah, the Crown Prince's mother, two nurses and two palace guardsmen...
...been too. The new government proclaimed its withdrawal from the Arab Union with Jordan and signed a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser, but then astonished everyone by asserting, in the words of Hashim Jawad, its new delegate to the U.N., that "Iraq has never renounced the Baghdad Pact. It has never been considered." And he added: "Our friendship to the United States is still the same...
...Egyptian bride and recently visited Egypt, but is determined not to let Nasser dominate Africa. India's Nehru, so slow to condemn Soviet intervention in Budapest, but now disturbed by Communist gains in India, mildly condemned the U.S. The fall of Iraq, diminishing the Baghdad Pact, hurts Pakistan, and therefore pleases India...
...intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan, had to appeal for caution. Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu wanted to march into Iraq, where some 100,000 Turks live...