Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready to fly in paratroopers to help young King Hussein put it down. For if Britain loses its hold in Jordan, it has jeopardized its control of the vital Iraq oilfields next door...
...were looking for chieftains to rule their Middle East states after World War 1, they found ready at hand the two Hashemite brothers Emir Feisal and Emir Abdullah, who had fought with skill and cunning against the Turks in alliance with Lawrence of Arabia. The British installed Feisal in Iraq, created Trans-Jordan for Abdullah...
...land was cultivated at all. Among the flints and pebbles on the treeless brown hills around Amman grew scattered stands of wheat. Flanked by rich oil lands, Jordan had no oil of its own, got revenue only from tolls on the two pipelines that cross it from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "A cement factory and a cigarette plant constitute Jordan's heavy industry," an economist observed wryly. Abdullah accordingly took Britain's advice with its money, accepted British commanders for the Arab Legion, let Britain plant its embassy inside his palace grounds. His Bedouin subjects, flocking to join...
...British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.'s ledger label for a pumping station in the Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan...
...streets, young Hussein will need all the help he can get. The ex-Palestinians who form two-thirds of his kingdom look to Egypt's arms and Saudi Arabia's gold to help drive the Israelis from their old homes. On the other side stands Iraq, Egypt's No. 1 rival in the Arab world. Iraq has the money ($200 million a year in oil royalties), plus the common Hashemite hatred that unites its King with Jordan's against the rival Saudi Arabian dynasty. After last week's desert meeting the Iraqi Cabinet went into...