Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many...
...Asian area from Afghanistan to Burma, a territory that includes more than one-fourth of all the free world's population, SEATO partner Pakistan got almost 60% ($108 million) of U.S. funds. India, whose population is almost five times as large as Pakistan's, got a U.S. allocation of $60 million in 1956. One reason for the disparity: neutralist India chooses not to qualify for U.S. military and defense support programs...
...India agreed to be an American satellite like Pakistan, you, I am sure, would certainly have endorsed India's legitimate actions in Kashmir. Why don't you practice what you preach? Let the Negroes and Red Indians breathe freely in your country...
HAROUN AR RASHID (President, Pakistan Assn.) Cambridge, England
...accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...