Word: iraqization
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...into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles-away, 1,500-plus thermonuclear bombers of Strategic Air Command. The key results of Admiral Holloway's power: i) Lebanon and nearby Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...
...cold-war defenses; 4) world Communism had been shown that the U.S. was not deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over the sea because they could shoot...
Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting associated with British colonial power...
...yelled: "Americans, may you choke to death in your fury." Now the crowd of 100,000, assembled by trucks and bargain-rate excursion trains from all over Egypt, roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, Nasser launched into his speech...