Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three astute, calculating men were ready with a forum and a plan for Pan-Arabia. They were: Egypt's Premier, cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...
...countries-Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan-that had formed part of the old Ottoman Empire. Arab unity would be achieved in two stages: 1) the Greater Syria move under an agreed form of government; 2) a larger League of Arab States, to which the new Greater Syria and Iraq would immediately adhere. Other Arab States might come in when they wished...
...increase pipeline delivery can be built at present only with steel from the United States. [Should] such facilities ... be provided to the international group . . . and thus maintain their existing monopoly of pipeline deliveries to the Eastern Mediterranean and through it to Europe? ... In my opinion, an increase in Iraq production will only serve to warp further the present unequal position. . . . The problem of oil in the Middle East is one of seeing that the oil produced in each political unit gets its fair share of the total market...
...Iraq Petroleum is jointly owned by the British (who have the biggest interest), the U.S. (Standard Oil of N.J. and Socony-Vacuum), the French and the Dutch...