ABSTRACT
The establishment of the Baghdad Pact was the consummation of long-nurtured Anglo-American aspirations to establish a pro-Western security pact of Middle Eastern states. As noted already (chapter 6), the Northern Tier concept had originated with Secretary Dulles. His idea had been to abandon the Egypt-centred, British-sponsored MEC, in favour of a security pact of states that were geographically closer to the Soviet Union, and therefore more sensitive to and apprehensive of the Soviet menace.
