Word: mideast
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...Russia's happiest hunting ground was the Middle East. Last week Moscow got off diplomatic notes about the situation there to the U.S., Britain and France. Ostensibly just a renewal of last April's bland proposals that the Big Four forswear the use of force in the Mideast, the notes actually added up to a device to win an Arab audience for the charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian governments. Like the two Soviet naval...
...savage, month-long campaign, British and Free French forces (who began the invasion with the proclaimed intention of giving Syria independence) overwhelmed 35,000 stubborn Vichy troops. The Free French almost immediately began to retreat from their promises of freedom, but France's wartime weakness gave her old Mideast rival Britain an irresistible opportunity. In 1945, when rioting broke out in Damascus, Winston Churchill compelled the French to confine their troops in Syria to barracks. Within two months Syria was for all practical purposes an independent state...
...irreconcilably hostile bloc." The Communists, on the other hand, have exploited the U.S. desire for peace and its fear of all-out atomic war by playing with considerable skill their "strategy of ambiguity," i.e., by alternating belligerence with "peaceful coexistence," open repression (Hungary) with subtle infiltration (the Mideast). "What is striking [is] that essentially the same pattern of Soviet behavior should time and again raise discussion about its 'sincerity' or its 'novelty,' " says Kissinger. "Nothing could be more irrelevant." Steadfast Communist doctrine uses war and peace as varying opportunistic means to the same distant goal: domination...
...tourist-trodden Europe, many major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...
...report on the two-month, 15-nation Mideast tour of Ike Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards (TIME, May 13): Of the $200 million made available to the doctrine for emergency Mideast aid, said Ambassador Richards, he had pledged $120 million on the spot-slightly more than half of it for economic assistance, the rest for "guns, tanks and things of that kind," which will be rushed to the area. Richards' report was followed by a complaint from Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, who had accepted $3,000,000 in Eisenhower Doctrine economic aid, but was nettled by Richards' refusal...