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...routed rebel Imam of Oman fled on a donkey before the victorious troops of the British-backed Sultan of Muscat and Oman, eleven Arab states asked the U.N. Security Council to take up Britain's "armed aggression" in Oman, and Moscow joined in with a fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
...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 states now rushing to the Imam's defense had bothered to grant recognition...
...rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration. Rebel casualties were unknown, but probably amounted to not more than 40 or 50 killed and wounded...
...operation has been successful," declared British Brigadier J.A.R. Robertson. "We have reinstated the Sultan's forces. Political control is developing." To make sure that the right kind of "political control'' continues to develop. Britain will maintain an airstrip at Firq, but will withdraw most of its regular troops...
...long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...