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...bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain has no intention of jeopardizing them...
Ever since 500 B.C., when Persia's King Ahasuerus put "the riches of his glorious kingdom" on display for six months, monarchs by the hundred and merchants by the million have been convinced that nothing stimulates trade like a fair. This idea was vigorously rampant...
They had gone to the right place. Experts say that most corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated...
...years the old Shah's splenetic energy also bulldozed medieval Iran into building an 860-mile railroad to span the country from north to south, erecting schools and factories, changing the country's name from provincial Persia to national Iran, abandoning the veil for women, accepting movies and traffic lights...
...British west-to-east imperialism crosses the north-to-south axis of Russian expansionism. In Peter the Great's famed "testament" (even if he did not write it, historians call it an accurate expression of Russian policy), he exhorted his countrymen to "excite continual wars in Turkey and Persia...