Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having said all of this, Malenkov fell back on the familiar Soviet doubletalk about "certain American circles" who are "putting their stakes on war," and called NATO "the main threat to the cause of peace." He talked fondly of Iran, and wished to be "good neighborly" with Turkey; he was anticipating "normalization" of relations with Yugoslavia and Greece; he was anxious to supply bread, coal and business contracts to "the glorious Italian people"; he sympathized with Japanese attempts "to win back the independence of their country" from...
...help U.S. manufacturers cut their costs. But it will work a corresponding hardship in the producer nations. In Malaya, where tin is one of the main props of the economy, 54 tin mines have shut down in the last few months, and more are on the verge of closing. Turkey is also feeling the pinch. For more than two years, Turkey has sold more than two-thirds of its output of chromite (used to harden steel) to the U.S. The dollars it earned have helped to pay for the capital-works program which is lifting Turkey's backward economy...
...Africa and the Near East, growing nationalism and lack of industrial development discourage much new U.S. investment, except in mining and oil. However, a few Near East countries, such as Turkey and Egypt, are taking a more enlightened attitude toward foreign capital. Rigid screening of new projects in British, French, Belgian and Portuguese dependencies in Africa prevents major participation of U.S. investors. As a result, almost two-thirds of the U.S.'s relatively small investment in Africa ($350 million) is in South Africa, where the investment climate is still favorable, and in Liberia. The Far East attracts little...
From another anti-Nazi German, known by the code name "Wood," Dulles got the text of 2,600 top-secret German Foreign Office documents. It was on information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...
...Athens. Risen from the ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British...