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IIraq SaidTarget’For RedsrmedBy United Press InternationalIraq, which regards itself as the cradle of world culture, has had a turbulent political history since the days when the Tigris and Euphrates spawned the first civilization.The two rivers of antiquity once supported a population of 30 million. Modem - day Iraq, slightly larger than the state of California, has a population of five million. of whom the Kurdish tribes, long a source of unrest, number about 700,000.Iraq is the seventh largest oil-producing nation in the world. It has an annual revenue estimated at more than 300 million dollars.But the income is concentrated in the hands of a few, while many Arabs live on a near-starvation level.The San Remo Conference of allied prime ministers in 1920 awarded Great Britain a mandate over Iraq in 1920, and Emir Fei-sal was proclaimed King the fol- \ A I lowing year, founding the Hashemite dynasty.Anti - British hatred built up during the days of the mandate, and former Premier Rashid Ali became premier in 1941 in a pro-Axis coup. The British crushed | the revolt, but there were anti-British and anti - American riots. ft * L ■
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Morgantown Dominion News
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jul 15, 1958
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