Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers who have flooded the Arab-speaking world, helping to spark pro-Nasser riots in Jordan and to turn the people of oil-rich Kuwait and Saudi Arabia against their rulers...
...long slow movement of events there is no real reason why Arab unity has to be against the West. The Arab world needs the techniques of the West to overcome its poverty, disease and ignorance. It needs the West's markets for its oil. But the misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab...
...Hussein and his people, who are as Arab as Nasser, appeared embarrassed to have the British "colonials" back: the Red Devils were confined behind barbed wire at the Amman airport. But not only was Hussein's throne shaking; the economy of Jordan was near collapse. Jordan's oil supplies were snapped off when the rebels seized Iraq, and queues lined Amman's streets to buy gas at exorbitant prices. To alleviate the fuel shortage, the U.S. agreed to fly in 1,000 tons daily from Bahrein in the Persian Gulf, and to help out the economy gave...
Nuri boasted that he was no idealist but a practical patriot who aligned his country with the West as the only way of keeping the country's oil flowing and Communism out. "History would curse me," he once said, "if I appealed to the emotions of the masses at the expense of the national security." Nuri let the powerful sheiks get richer and richer, but in recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board...
Most of the civilians are strong nationalists, anti-British. The Sorbonne-educated Minister of Guidance (Propaganda), a longtime Kubah colleague, worked with the Nazis during World War II. The Finance Minister, a graduate of the London School of Economics during Harold Laski's heyday, wants to nationalize the oil wells. The Minister of Public Works and Communications (Baba Ali), considered friendly to Americans, went to Columbia University...