Word: iraq
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Sert recently completed plans for the new United States Embassy buildings in Baghdad, Iraq...
...Saud. Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, a tried and true U.S. friend himself, met with the President, conferred with Saud, observed to waiting reporters that the King is a "real friend of the U.S." Still another Middle Eastern voice, that of natty Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, was raised in the fresh Washington harmony. Like Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with Britain) in the Baghdad Pact. Altogether it was a concert of Middle...
Everyone hopes that the current troubles add up only to a short-range problem. Barring political complications, the Suez Canal should be open for shallow-draft tanker traffic by March 1, will probably open completely by mid-May. Oilmen are also hopeful that the sabotaged Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline traversing Syria from Iraq to the Mediterranean can soon handle 40% of its former capacity. But it may still take months before the flow of oil is back to normal. Even if the canal clearance proceeds on schedule-and the Egyptians do not decide to keep it closed after...
...overdrawn, even the oil-rich Saudi Arabians. The State Department expects King Saud to tell President Eisenhower this week that only Saud can save Jordan, and that the only way to do it is to give him the money to pay Jordan. On Saud's heels will come Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah, who will undoubtedly argue that the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan should be linked with Hashemite Iraq. Neighboring Syria would also like to gobble up Jordan in a greater Syria. The U.S. may soon find that the first task of its new Middle Eastern policy...
Sandys is now mulling over the idea of replacing conscription with U.S.-style selective service. He is also preparing to reduce Britain's NATO forces in Germany. With British forces gone from Iraq, going from Ceylon, and practically expelled from their last two bases in Jordan, experts are advising him to bring all remaining colonial garrisons home, at least from Asia. Sandys is prepared to go far, but not so far as British Military Expert Captain Basil Liddell Hart, who last week urged Britain to put all its reliance on nuclear weapons, and chop its defense budget by nearly...