Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally came the key question: "Mr. Secretary, We have restated that we will stand by Turkey in an attack. How will you do that? By attacking the attacker...
Replied Dulles: "Certainly if there is an attack on Turkey by the Soviet Union, it would not mean a purely defensive operation by the U.S., with the Soviet Union a privileged sanctuary from which to attack Turkey." Just how and where the U.S. might use its Mid-East power (see map) to counterattack he left to the Russians to guess...
...week long, Moscow's propagandists bellowed charges that the U.S. was egging Turkey on to attack Syria. "No one," declared Tass, "should doubt that if Syria is attacked, the Soviet Union . . . will take all necessary measures...
...left no doubt that it stood firm behind Turkey. Secretary of State Dulles warned that a Russian attack on Turkey would invite immediate U.S. retaliation. And, with President Eisenhower's hearty agreement, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan decided to fly to Washington this week for a conference in which the Middle East would figure heavily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Bristled Radio Moscow: "If Eisenhower and Macmillan really want to bring the Middle East back to normal, why don't they invite other countries? Mr. Macmillan's meeting with the President hints at a separate plot by one group...
...taking off on a firsthand inspection trip to Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. He said he can raise $200 million if the mining ventures pan out. Among the possibilities: a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 deal with Bulent Yazici, executive vice president of Turkey's Industrial Development Bank, to build Turkey's first chrome-plating mill...