Word: pro-western
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...Lawrence's World War I desert army against the Turks, pushed the treaty through Iraq's parliament. Turkey's National Assembly ratified it unanimously. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, Iraq became the first of the Arab League states to join the pro-Western chain of alliances...
...jaundiced observers wondered whether Bangkok would not do better to spend its energy to clean up its politics rather than its streets. Contented and traditionally independent (more than 700 years), Thailand is the only frankly pro-Western ally along the southeast border of Red China. But its government is also autocratic and corrupt. Communist propa ganda makes heavy capital of these facts, but for the most part the amiable Siamese themselves, generally smiling and invariably well-fed, seem not to give a hoot...
Founded in 1869 by a Prussian (August Bebel) and a Hessian pacifist (Wilhelm Liebknecht), the SPD is still doctrinally Marxist, making much ado about dialectics, red flags and the greeting "comrade." The Socialists say they are pro-Western, but they oppose German membership in the West European Union; they are stoutly antiCommunist, yet they line up on Moscow's side in its fight against the Paris accords. At a time when West Germany, and most, though not all, of its workers are enjoying unprecedented prosperity, the SPD still tends to couch its cries for social justice in obsolete Marxist...
Bloodlessly, Pakistan changed from an unstable, pro-Western democracy to a more stable, pro-Western military dictatorship...
Chancellor's rigidly pro-Western anti-Soviet policy has got the nation nowhere, has won neither security nor sovereignty...