Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backed U.S. career ambassador headed secretly across town to Washington National Airport one day last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq (1943-45), Ambassador to India (1948-51) and Ambassador to Iran...
...might become a Russian satellite, but she was not one yet. The difference lies in the fact that Russia has no common border with Syria; between them sits Turkey, most powerful and best-armed nation in the Middle East, as well as Turkey's Baghdad Pact neighbors of Iraq and Iran. The London Times described the situation as Russia's "political parachute drop." The Russians have not marched into Syria; they were invited...
...probably for Hourani and the main chance. They also think that Serraj (who used to talk daily on the phone with Nasser) believes that he is using rather than being used by the Communists. Hourani burns with the ambition of building a "Greater Syria," which, if achieved, would topple Iraq's able, pro-Western leader Nuri asSaid, take oil-rich Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact and eventually unify Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon in one vast Arab State under Hourani...
...early 1950s he granted a British-run subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Co. a concession to drill for oil in the Omani hinterland. But he was not quite master in his own house. The fanatic Ibadhis in the hills, resentful of the Sultanate rule, had long ago elected a new dynasty of Imams and in 1920, after decades of hard fighting had won from the then Sultan a grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam...