Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V, Part 1

Editorial Note

Baghdad, on August 9, reported information from an officer of the Rafidain Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iraq, that the Iraqi Government had granted permission for the Middle East Pipeline Company to start a preliminary survey of territory in Southern Iraq for the eastern section and terminus of its proposed pipeline to Syria (Airgram 109, 890.6363/8–948).