Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President called home his special ambassador, James P. Richards, choosing not to have him mark time waiting for invitations to visit these three Arab countries...
...friendly Iraq Richards signed a $12.5 million program of regional highway, railroad and telecommunication projects linking and strengthening the Baghdad Pact's four Middle East members: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. In Saudi Arabia he got along with King Saud; their joint communique at visit's end affirmed opposition to "Communist activities" more forthrightly than Washington had expected, considering Saud's formal adherence to Egyptian Dictator Gamal-Abdel Nasser's policy of "positive neutrality." Last week Dick Richards convinced Emperor Haile Selassie that the Eisenhower Doctrine did not mean interference in Ethiopian affairs-and impressed...
Dents in the Mountains. At week's end, as Richards moved on to the Sudan, it was still undecided whether he would go to troubled Jordan, troublemaking Egypt or fanatic-ridden Syria. A policy had been laid down in advance that he would visit only countries that invited him, and the rulers of Egypt and Syria were still wavering between two unpleasant alternatives: to swallow pride and invite Richards, or pass up the big chance to get a badly needed slice of that $200 million...
...Also under fire from Turkey was New York's Governor Averell Harriman, who lost no time in inviting Makarios to visit New York-an act which the University of Istanbul Students Union termed "disgusting." The population of New York State includes an estimated 297,000 people of Greek ancestry v. 36,000 of Turkish ancestry...
...article? "This is rather embarrassing," said he. "The piece was intended for British consumption. People without skills who think of coming to America to find the pot of gold should be discouraged." The U.S., in short, is a nice place to live but no place for People people to visit...