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...Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
Egypt's shrewd, greedy King Fuad had just died after a 19-year reign. Only six months before, the young prince had arrived in Britian to get a thorough training at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, plus a few lessons in manners and the craft of kingship. The moment he returned to Cairo, he was plumped into an atmosphere of intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces...
Most celebrated of the visitors are Winston Churchill, Britian's wartime prime minister, and Harold E. Stasson, Republican presidential aspirant, who will address rallies at the Boston Garden on March 31st and April 1st. President Truman cancelled his scheduled appearance last week because of pressure of work...
...Roosevelt, dressed in black, and members of her family heard John G. Winant, wartime ambassador to Great Britian and principal speaker at the memorial ceremony, eulogize her late husband as a man who strove tirelessly for world peace while guiding his own country to certain victory...
...evening before the conference, CAB announced that it had deferred all consideration of the question. CAB gave as the reason the fact that representatives of the U.S. State Department, CAB and Britian are meeting this week in Bermuda to discuss a bilateral air agreement...