Word: iraqization
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...That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful of army coups in nearby Egypt and Syria, persuaded a bunch of soldiers to surround the royal palace of Al Urdhi at Taiz, a fortified stronghold where the Imam lives with his harem, the royal treasure, an arsenal of modern weapons...
Nehru did not like the rearmament of Western Germany, and he did not like the new Turkey-Iraq defense pacts which "have caused new weakness . .. The Middle East is today split into hostile groups." He thought that Red China should have Formosa; he judged it "certain" that Red China will get Quemoy and Matsu. And he put it to the U.S.: "What are you planning for? The great war to happen?" The new SEATO pact signed at Manila fundamentally "upset any possibility of peace-as well as stability-in the Indo-Chinese area." Nehru accused "both blocs" of "interference...
...Harbor installations for Chile, Bangkok, and Basra, Iraq...
...West moved swiftly last week to take a new partner into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
Chief British military concerns in Iraq currently are the big R.A.F. bases at Shaibah and Habbaniya. If Britain could build a new "little NATO,"the bases could safely be turned over to it. The planes and men would remain largely British. But they would be there not by imposition of a "colonial" power, but as partners in mutual defense. Thus, the West would gain more solid bastion in the shifting political sands of the Middle East...