Word: iraqization
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...legendary figure has flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak-nosed and now 79, Gulbenkian is such a well-known operator that oilmen refer to him simply as "G." Despite two wars and slippery international oil politics, G has managed to hang on to his 5% interest in Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., which has brought him a fortune variously estimated at $200 to $800 million and annual royalties of some...
Before World War I, Gulbenkian wangled an oil concession for all of Iraq for the British, German and Dutch interests which formed the Turkish Petroleum Co., now Iraq Petroleum. They rewarded Gulbenkian with his 5% interest. In 1928, when Standard and Socony were admitted, all the partners-including the French, Royal Dutch-Shell, Anglo-Iranian and Gulbenkian-signed the "Red Line" agreement to share & share alike in any new exploitation of ex-Ottoman Empire territory. Later, he fell out with Deterding. Reportedly, Gulbenkian trimmed him so much in bear raids on Shell stock that the British government finally stepped...
Fighting Invited? When the Arabs saw themselves losing the debate, they lost their tempers. Cried Iraq's Fadhil Jamali: "Supporting the aspirations of the Jews [in Palestine] means very clearly a declaration of war. . . . This is an invitation to fighting." Even Arabs saw they had gone too far when Emil Ghory, a Christian Arab on the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, defended his pro-Nazi boss, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, with an un-Christian outburst: "The Jews are questioning the record of an Arab spiritual leader. Does that come properly from the mouth of a people who have crucified...
...Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
Chairman Pearson: It hasn't prevented members at that end from speaking frequently. [The section includes India's Asaf Ali and Iraq's Fadhil Jamali...