Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals allow Egypt to tear up her one-sided treaty with Britain, and join as an equal partner in a five-power Middle East command of the U.S., Britain, France and Turkey. The command would have its headquarters in Egypt, and would try to enlist other Moslem nations in a solid defense bloc against the Russians. Last week General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs, was in Paris and Ankara to explore military problems of a long-neglected and vital strategic area. Cairo's cold reception to the proposals indicated that he might be too late...
Next on his itinerary were the Greek civil war and assignments in Turkey. He returned to Shanghai late in 1948 just a few months before the Chinese Communists took over, and was working in Tokyo when the Korean war broke...
...means finished. The load of supporting his military establishment is simply too great for his economy. This year alone his deficit, out of a total budget of 1.5 billion Turkish lira ($530 million), is 234 million lira. In 1946, the last year before we joined up with Turkey, the army cost 40.59% of the country's budget. We have cut this to 30.9% and trimmed an oversize force of 900,000 men to just about half that, and at the same time actually doubled its firepower...
Wadsworth is probably a little overenthusiastic. Furthermore, Turkey already has 367 miles of Soviet frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
...there's a brawl, you can be sure of one thing-Turkey won't stand off as it did in World War II. Turkey has a good strong fist that'll bloody any nose that comes poking out from behind the Iron Curtain...