Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U.S. was enjoying its peaceful, prosperous summer, two facts came clear about Communist diplomacy 1957. These were that 1) the Russians, pouring arms into Syria and ships into the Mediterranean, were back at their old oft-frustrated game of trying to get a foothold in the Middle East; and 2) they wanted no part of effective disarmament, a point proved when they turned down the West's latest and most moderate disarmament proposals-and instead brandished their first test-model intercontinental ballistic missile...
...Syria. Dulles put the current diplomatic point and counterpoint about Syria into proper perspective by recalling Russia's failures in persistent attempts to dominate the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. In 1940 the Communists went after a spheres-of-influence deal with Ally Adolf Hitler that would give them control "in the general direction of the Persian Gulf"; in 1945-46 the Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they...
...this situation Dulles' central concern was that Syria's Soviet-armed leaders, "perhaps unwittingly," might be led by "an abnormal sense of power" into attacking their Arab neighbors. Dulles warned the Syrians-"This is risky business"-and he quoted the action passage of the Eisenhower Doctrine. "The U.S. is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of nations requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international Communism...
...nations now embroiled in the Middle East, Turkey is the only one that the U.S. is treaty-bound (in NATO) to defend. The sturdy and staunchly anti-Communist Turks are caught by geography between the Soviet Union and Syria. To guard their freedom, they keep 500,000 men under arms, and even with U.S. aid have a heavy defense burden. In addition, after centuries of feudalistic Ottoman rule, the Turks have tried to rush pell-mell into a modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy...
...ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac, and lined up in the streets to watch her pass...