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Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "We feel Iraq is potentially if not right now the brightest spot in the area. There's hope here to build something solid, and with Nuri in power we can work and build. He has our complete support, and we do not mind the rest of the world knowing it." The valley once so famed may yet blossom anew as the Valley of the Three Rivers—the Tigris, the Euphrates and the oil.
*Nuri's sister Sabria, widow of a Turkish officer, still receives the allowance ($5.60) from Baghdad's religious authorities. -If Left, Nuri asSaid; right, T. E. Lawrence.