Word: sib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Britain's Baghdad Pact ally, Iraq, as spokesman, the Arab states argued in the Security Council that Oman was independent territory, and British troops and planes had no business there. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon replied that under the 1920 Treaty of Sib (which the British have never published), the Imam, "a religious leader," had won a measure of autonomy, but that the Sultan was still sovereign over all of Muscat and Oman, and that therefore Britain was within its rights in answering his plea for help. The British pointed out tellingly that none of the Arab...