Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops ?130,000,000 and keeps increasing as long as British troops remain...
...many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
...About Iraq...
...Raised the U.S. mission in Iraq, a Middle East hot spot, to an embassy, named Career Diplomat George Wadsworth as first Ambassador...
This proposal envisioned retention of Britain's forward operational bases as long as practicable in such countries as the Sudan, Palestine, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, the informant said...