Word: iraqization
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...Arab League's members, the Government of British-sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...
...After World War I, U.S. companies could drill in Iraq only by joining the British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Co. and conforming to the Red Line pact. Under this pact, a member of Iraq Petroleum could drill in the Red Line area, which embraced most of Arabia and part of the old Turkish empire, only in partnership with the rest of I.P.C. As the British did not want to drill, they thus kept the U.S. companies from drilling...
...dark-skinned Prince Abdul Illah, regent of friendly Iraq, he presented the medal of the Legion of Merit...
...also found time to reduce the staff of 33 White House servants by approximately one-third. (Servants' salaries are paid by the Government, but the President must feed them out of his own pocket.) This week she held her first state dinner-for Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq...
...Portent. But the Kings had forgathered for more than fun. Their meeting, more than a symbol of union between the opposite ends of the Pan-Arab political axis, was a portent of Pan-Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent...