Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conceded that the canal "is a waterway economically, commercially and strategically of international importance," and expressed "the determination to uphold the convention guaranteeing the freedom of navigation of the canal signed at Constantinople on 29th of October, 1888." * Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U.S., West Germany...
Britain's most loyal ally in the Middle East, Iraq's young (21) King Feisal II, jubilantly showed up at Buckingham Palace for a state visit to a power behind his throne. Flanked by his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...hard-working Cavendish Cannon will have plenty to do at Rabat. In prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western Baghdad Pact. State is not passing out advice to Morocco in such a delicate situation, but "believes" that the Moroccans will want to stick to an independent role to get maximum leverage in the air-base negotiations...
...Russian medium tanks, French light tanks and howitzers, British 25-pounders and Centurion tanks. Bringing up the rear were 28 monstrous Stalin tanks with huge guns poking out of long, beetle-like turrets. Overhead, Russian MIGs screamed past flights of overage British Vampires and Meteors. Every Arab state but Iraq had sent contingents to swell the show, and Cairo's Al Ahram proudly called it a display of "the glory of Arabism represented by the strength of the united Arab nation, whose united army will protect the Arab nation against imperialism and Zionism...
...accomplish its delicate mission Washington sent its ablest Middle East specialist, Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, at the head of a topflight delegation of 23 observers to a Baghdad Pact council meeting in Teheran. The pact's five members-Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain-were ready with a program that accented economic rather than military measures. Henderson, backed by President Eisenhower's request for $100 million from Congress for special Middle East aid, pitched right in. Sample projects agreed on: a joint five-nation study for development of the Tigris-Euphrates basin's water resources, a joint...