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Dulles Assures Baghdad Pact Nations
U.S. Will Support Them With "Great
Force" Against Any Soviet Invasion

By ARTHUR GAVSHON

ANKARA, Turkey, (AP) Secretary of State Dulles told leaders of the five Baghdad Pact nations today the United States will support their nations with "mobile power of great force" against any Communist invasion.

Dulles' keynote speech at the opening of the Middle East alliance's ministerial council meeting emphasized that any potential aggressor "knows in advance that his losses from aggression would far exceed any possible gains."

But, he said, "if perchance deterrence fails" the United States will contribute its mobile power to save the people of the Middle East.

A few hours before he spoke one bomb blew out the rear wall of a U.S. Embassy warehouse and another badly damaged a private bookshop near the U.S. Information Service. No one was injured.

Premier Menderes of Turkey opened the conference in the closely guarded parliament building. He had been up for most of the night personally directing the hunt for the anti-American bomb throwers and the troop and police protection against further demonstrations.

Dulles told the premiers, foreign ministers, generals and diplomats the United States will continue to provide economic aid to individual members of the pact organization.

He emphasized the Moslem members must strike a proper balance between military and economic efforts.

Turning to the question of a disarmament agreement with the Russians, he said:

"The United States ardently seeks limitation of armaments on a basis of equality. But never will the United States accept the Soviet Communist thesis that men, because they are religious, must deny themselves the need to defend their religious freedom."