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With trouble in Libya, trouble at home, and big trouble in the Balkans, Great Britain last week was afraid that she had trouble in Paradise as well. By week's end this month's uprising in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden, showed no signs of normal simmering down, seemed instead a nasty threat to the carotid artery of the British Empire, the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline...
Like Syria, Palestine and Trans-Jordan, Iraq, watered by the Tigris and Euphrates, was carved from the Arabic-speaking provinces of pre-war Turkey. It owes its existence to Great Britain, which helped create it after World War I, then surrendered its mandate in 1932, leaving Iraq autonomous but allied to the Empire by a treaty which gives Britain important air bases...
...reconnaissance expedition two years ago, Lockard said, University archaeologists examined in northern Syria and Iraq the "mounds" of about 120 ancient, now buried town sites, some of which are believed to contain cultural remains of this early people. Members of this party were Lauriston Ward, curator of Asiatic Archaeology at the Museum, and director of the Expedition, and Mr. and Mrs. Lockard...
...established in new Eastern kingdoms: Father Husein in Hejaz (whence his son AH was chased by that tough man Ibn Saud), Faisal in Syria (whence he was chased by the French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long...
...triumphs. Of 212 divisions in all, probably not over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many potential uses (see map). A drive in the East could weaken the British Empire gravely. Meanwhile bombing would continue Britain's terrible wearing down...