Word: iraqization
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...Iraq Parliament last week received an ironic motion for the establishment of an Arab national home-in California...
...U.S.S.R. took full advantage of the peoples in its southern states whose cousins live across the border in Iran. Azerbaijan's knife-wearing Kurds and ebullient Armenians spill over into adjoining countries (see map). Its 700,000 Kurds have kin in Turkey and British-controlled Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would...
...more moderate Palestine Arab Party was satisfied with British action stopping Jewish immigration. The extremist Independence Arab Party favored immediate action against the Jews. In desperation, Mardam called in Iraq's Nuri Pasha, an old hand at settling Arab disputes. At week's end, negotiations broke down again...
...search for the site of man's first civilized home narrowed down last week. The Iraq Government proudly claimed the oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud-brick houses had rooms some seven feet square. Mixed in the debris were fragments of jars moulded 6,000 years before Christ. In graves lay remains of people not unlike modern...
...announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages. But these villages are too highly developed to have been the first farming settlements. Somewhere nearby, anthropologists have believed, lies the place where man first planted-and waited a season to gather the ripened grain...