Coll 17/20(2) 'Iraq. Anglo-Iraq treaty of 1948.' [‎14r] (27/56)

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but th^t bl<s«iB£ could by no •ccac hiTu bcuu th* caucc of lie rculicution #
for tho Arub Loofuo 1c nothing uoro then an ozproccion of an ideal vbioh
Kmy boon aotiro in tho ninda of Arab Loadora ainco v orld War !• Today
tb# Arab Loaguo and ita growth ia one of the nain linoa along which Iraqi
foreign policy nowaa, for Iraq want* the Arab Loagua to aohioro liberation,
unity and cultural reuaieenoo for all Arab countriea fron Caaablanoa to
Baaralu Smm Iraqi thinkara are inpatient with the Arab League* They
want it to achieve no re and to novo no re quickly* But the fact ran* ine
that the Ideale of the League cannot be challenged by any true Arab
natiooelict in Iraq* It ia a well known fact thet the eta tea forming
the Arab League wary in their atagea of aocial and cultural deweloj»cat,
but the fact that all Arabe bare one eounon language, one culture and one
hiatory and the fact that they all a ha re the eane Ideale of achieving
freedom, unity and progreea, nakee the Arab League a no at vital organ! action
for the Arab world* Fortunetaly art!cl# 9 of the Covenant of the Arab
Laagua, providaa that thoae Arab statea who want to aehlevt eloaer unity
the Arab Laague itaalf aehievaa, are entitled to do eo* It ie with
a doeire for a closer unity eeeording to the provision of the Covenent
of the Arab Leagna that Iraq and Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan signed e Treaty of Brotharhood
and Alliane# a few nontha ago*
About the sana tint Iraq signad a new Treaty of fri and ship and Allianea
with Turkay, ttaua fortifying the Saadabad Pact* Iraq today attaches
greater inportanee to this Feet than it did bafore the war, and it is
hepsd that this Fact will ba revitalised and it# basis broadened so that
it night probably ineluda Greeea and Pakistan* Iraq ia historically and
geographically in a position to act as a connacting link between the
states of the Arab League end the statea of the Saadabad Pact* It nay
well work for a eloaer unity between these two groups of states to provide
e solid block for intexmatioaal peace end security.
The world today la by no means settled* The division of the Greet
Pevere into Veateru and Eastern blacks presents e reel danger for tbo
future* This division baa made the United latlons rather impotent in