Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...
...named for, stretches from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. In the northern and central sectors, General Dwight Eisenhower and his fellow commanders have a solid organizational line, running from Scandinavia through Middle Europe. But on the southern flank, NATO ends with Italy. It does not embrace Greece and Turkey, the guardians of the eastern Mediterranean...
Last week after months of quiet but persistent pressure by the U.S. on its European partners, the twelve NATO powers seemed all but agreed that their alliance should be extended to take in Greece and Turkey. Most hesitant to welcome the two east Mediterranean countries: the north Europeans (Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands), who argued that NATO's resources might be spread too thin at their expense, and that NATO might lose its character as a North Atlantic community. The U.S. answer: there would be no lessening of American aid to northern Europe; there could be no NATO stability...
...Since arms cannot be obtained except from the Western bloc . . . it is in our interest to side with this bloc out of our own free will, as Turkey did . . . Such an association would guarantee our safety, liberty and independence and would also secure a just settlement of our pending questions, and that of Palestine in particular . . . Neutrality is impossible ... At the present critical moment neutrality is considered by the Western bloc as animosity, and if we gain the animosity of the Western bloc, it may drive that bloc to continue to hurt us. If, at the moment of need...
Three have come from battle-torn Korea, and one each from Latvia, and Lithuania. Other nations with just one representative are British Guiana, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraqu, Malaya, New Zealand, Turkey, and Venezuala...