Word: bahrein
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...made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over barren sand and hope for oil strikes...
...calling on Haile Selassie. They also feared that the U.S. would naturally side with Saudi Arabia, whose oil concessions are wholly American-but the fact is that U.S. oil money dominates even the areas where British protection prevails: U.S. companies own 50% of the stake in Kuwait, 100% in Bahrein, the Neutral Zones and Dhofar, 23.75% m Muscat and Oman...
...rigid Moslem code imposes added irritants. Books are banned (apparently in fear of subversive literature). Wives are irritated by the Saudi refusal to let women drive anywhere outside the company compounds. Christian worship is forbidden, and services must be conducted surreptitiously by a priest who flies in from Bahrein and gives his profession as "teacher." Both Aramco and the U.S. military advisory groups are forbidden to have Jewish employees, and an American who receives a letter with an Israeli postmark is deported. The ban on liquor is partly circumvented by the construction of home stills in many a ranch house...
Moderate Voice. When the Anglo-French attack on Suez came, Saud, in the opinion of U.S. observers, did what he had to do-and no more. He closed down the pipeline to Bahrein (a British protectorate), banned sale of Saudi oil to British or French buyers, broke relations with Britain and France, allowed Nasser to use Saudi airfields to fly his Russian jets and bombers to safety, and offered Saudi troops (Nasser declined them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that...
...British bombers knocked Egypt's Voice of the Arabs off the air, the International Federation of Arab Workers broadcast an appeal to Arab field hands to blow up Western oil installations-"even if it means blowing up all the pipelines in the Arab world!" Promptly, workers in tiny Bahrein set fire to a British oil company office. Three big explosions were reported along the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s 556-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean. Saboteurs may have acted on their own. At least, none of the oil-producing or oil-transmitting Arab nations officially ordered the sabotaging...