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In the six years since the signing of the North Atlantic Pact, the world's free nations have forged a chain of defense alliances which extended eastward from the Bering Sea, across North America and Europe to Turkey, then resumed again in Southeast Asia. But in the Middle East, the chain fell short of ringing the globe.

Last week Pakistan, already a member of SEATO, provided a missing link. Premier Mohammed Ali announced that his country had agreed to join a defense alliance with Britain, Turkey and Iraq.

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