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...around the Suez Canal; Amman in Jordan; Cyprus and Malta in the Mediterranean. With the new bases, a U.S. plane taking off from Cyprus, for example, would have to fly only 1,500 miles to Moscow, 1,000 miles to Baku. The U.S. already held giant Wheelus Field near Tripoli (also being enlarged), and an airbase at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia...
...Communists grab Iran, they will get an asset far more valuable than Korea. Through Iran lie Russia's paths to the rest of the Middle East oil: the great fields of Iraq and Arabia, and the Bahrein-Sidon, Kirkuk-Haifa and Kirkuk-Tripoli pipelines (see map). With U.S. encouragement, Western Europe depends more & more on Middle East rather than Western Hemisphere oil. This shift is economically and strategically sensible, provided that the Western powers intend to defend the Middle East. Fact is, however, that they show no serious sign of such an intention. Turkey is the only country...
...Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
...delegates cheered and Mr. Truman joined them in singing, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...
This week, as President Reed set sail for a European inspection tour himself, he was brightly optimistic about his company's next 100 years. Having opened up eleven new branches in 1949, he is now planning new offices in Cannes, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Okinawa and Oberammergau. "The quickest way for other nations to earn U.S. dollars," says Reed, "is to attract U.S. tourists. Because most countries understand that now, I think 1950 will be our best year ever...