Abstract
THE pertinent comment was recently made that even the people of the Middle West are concerned about the Middle East. And well they may be. This strategic land bridge linking Eurasia and Africa now occupies a prominent place on the world stage — a position of importance that it has held many times during its seven thousand years of eventful history. Here, in an area larger than the United States, live 116,000,000 people.1 Their nations lie across the sea and air lanes between East and West, and beneath their feet are more than half the earth's known oil reserves. Critical . . .
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