Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume VI

Editorial Note

The Iraq Petroleum Company completed a 16-inch pipeline to Tripoli, Lebanon, presumably in the summer of 1949. The first flow of crude oil through the pipeline reached the Mediterranean seaboard on or about July 9 (airgram 384, August 10, from Beirut, 890G.6363/8–1049).