Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brunei, like many of its neighbors in Malaysia, fell upon hard times. Its fleets rotted away; fierce Sulu pirates came to take its strongest people captive and sell them in the slave markets. In the middle of the last century, Brunei was forced to seek protection from another island kingdom, Great Britain, whose fleets were in better shape. As recently as 25 years ago, once proud Brunei was an impoverished nation of backward tribesmen and headhunters whose annual income from foreign trade was a mere...
Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...
Last week, as the Egyptian owners gave renewed signs of canceling her Suez lease, Britain sprang a surprise: a 20-year rental agreement for a new war store just across Egypt's western border. London agreed to pay Libya, the Middle East's newest and poorest kingdom (created by the U.N. out of Mussolini's African empire), a dole of $2,800,000 annually for at least five years for economic development, plus another $7,700,000 annually to balance her budget, in return for the right to base British troops and planes in Libya...
Egypt, getting wind of the negotiations, tried to dissuade her Arab League neighbor, but did not succeed. British power in the Eastern Mediterranean now relies on its bases in Malta (naval) and Iraq (a big air complex at Habbaniya), its military and financial control of the tiny kingdom of Jordan (whose British-trained Arab Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor...
...Europe, where U.S. investors' stake is approximately $3.5 billion, OIT men found the obstacles to U.S. capital much the same. The United Kingdom, where $847 million in U.S. money is invested, offers "generally satisfactory" conditions. But France is "uninviting" to U.S. money; impoverished Italy, and West Germany with its high taxes and vulnerability to Communist attack, offer few opportunities...