Word: mesopotamia
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...Romans built baths and forums, and 1,500,000 people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports 5,000,000 people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad...
Climate Next the Skin. Having proved the evils of clothing, Dr. Wulsin considers the alleged inferiority of hot-country civilizations. It is largely a myth, he says. He derides the contention of Professor Huntington that the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Mayans and Indonesia were developed under climates cooler than at present. There have been no significant changes of climate- except in the climate next to people's skins...
...Control began in the '203, when Slessor and the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur ("Bomber") Harris used it to subdue rebellious Arab tribes in Mesopotamia. The rebels got fair warning: cease raiding and lay down your arms, or your villages will be destroyed. Those who took no notice were bombed...
Ruthless as it was, Air Control was effective (and probably saved lives), at least in Mesopotamia. Now Slessor wants to use it against aggressive Communists. The Berlin Conference, he argues, proves that "there is not the smallest chance of agreement by the normal civilized methods . . . with the Communists." Last week, in a major BBC broadcast which presumably had the blessing, if not the backing, of the British government, Slessor offered this alternative...
...commissioned the proud Hashemites, an old Mecca family, to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks. To reward the Hashemites at war's end, the British carved up the Turkish empire, installed Hashemites as rulers over two vast chunks of it. Thus were Jordan and Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia) brought awkwardly into the world. The grateful Hashemites have remained loyal to Britain. Until 1948, they remained loyal to each other as well. Then Jordan's Abdullah, warrior hero of World War I, defied the Arab League by annexing Arab Palestine for himself. Iraq, along with the rest...