Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled condition of Syria, now threatening to inflame the Middle East, is a product of conflicting internal sentiments and external pressures. She has emerged as a possible Soviet satellite in the Middle East, a danger which can be curbed primarily by her Arab neighbors...
...that Nasser was promising to behave, and perhaps had to, the concern about Russian penetration of the Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage...
...while Washington is worried about Syria, it discounts some of the more exaggerated Anglo-French talk of Soviet take-over in Syria. It also disputes the talk of a complete collapse of Arab responsibility in the Middle East. In fact, last week there were promising signs of an Arab awareness of their own problems...
...leaders of the three other Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact-Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. (The fifth pact member-Britain-was not welcome.) The four pledged strong measures to fight "the rising tide of subversion in the Middle East," and were obviously most alarmed at the threat in Syria...
...privately (TIME, Nov. 26). For one thing, Britain has got to make its fuel-oil needs known to the U.S., is awaiting an improvement in relations (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For another, the U.S. is anxious to keep the American-owned Trans-Arabian pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Syria in operation, is going slow so as not to provoke Syria into blowing up that line as it did the line from Iraq. The U.S. was also, obviously, not willing to rush to the aid of Britain and France while their troops remained on Egyptian soil...