Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East of Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...
...Peace. As yet, all the world had to go on was the U.S. Government's intention to build a 1,000-mile, $130-165 million pipeline across Saudi Arabia, to move oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean (TIME, Feb. 14). But this was only an item; beyond it, momentous things were at stake-even the future peace of the world...
...Sheiks. The U.S. pipeline in Saudi Arabia is only the first step toward collective security. To plan further steps, it was learned last week, the U.S. and Great Britain are to begin diplomatic conversations soon, in this country. These will attempt to iron out the problems arising from: 1) years of British diplomatic control of the Middle East, where the U.S. as a government (not as an oil producer) is a newcomer; 2) the inordinately "fluid" political situation there, where Kings, Sheiks, Moslems and Zionists are involved...
...main be supplied from the Middle East. Drilling in that region is so easy that crude costs only one-third to one-half what it does in the U.S. More, this reversal of the oil flow is also geographically feasible: Melbourne is almost equidistant from California and Arabia; the Mediterranean outlets of the Middle East are no farther from the eastern seaboard of the U.S. than the Gulf Coast is from Europe...
Creator of the birds is Dorothy Doughty (rhymes with doubty), eldest daughter of the late great Charles Montagu (Travels in Arabia Deserta) Doughty (TIME, Sept. 6). Shy, 51 and a spinster, Ceramist Doughty lives in Cornwall, England. Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon's Birds of America, is now England's only fashioner in porcelain of the birds...