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Iraq's Premier Nuri Al-Said urged that the Arab nations formally renounce neutrality, line up firmly with the West, and organize a joint Middle Eastern army, eventually to be put under NATO. There were reservations: Egypt, for instance, wants British troops to leave the Suez Canal Zone, put the canal's defense under an international authority. Syria favors a Middle Eastern regional organization...
...Consider giving aid to Franco Spain and perhaps provide some land troops, sea and air forces to defend the Malay Peninsula, the Suez Canal and North Africa...
...role. In 1914, the British government bought into Anglo-Iranian to assure its navy an oil supply. Today Britain controls 52.55% of the voting stock. With U.S. encouragement, postwar Europe has become increasingly dependent on Middle East oil; it now gets about 70% of its oil from east of Suez, of which about a third is Anglo-Iranian. A friendly relationship between Iran and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., assuring continued operation, is thus as important to Washington and Paris diplomatic and defense chiefs as it is to Anglo-Iranian's board in London...
...good grey New York Times takes pains to keep its readers straight on geography, is as careful with locations west of the Hudson as east of Suez. Thus, it sometimes identifies Chicago as "Chicago, Illinois." Last week the Chicago Daily News rose up in wrath at such provincialism. Cried the News...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...