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WATERING JORDAN
THE PURSUIT OF GOD
By WALDO DRAKE
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program. Bunger first came to Jordan last fall to investigate possibilities of helping the country by damming either the Jordan or the Yarmuk. Maps shown him by native experts convinced him that on neither stream was there any site from which impounded water could reach adequate farming areas. Despondent, he was flying home last December when his airplane en route to Beirut was driven east of course by a severe rainstorm. Looking down through the storm, Bunger noticed the several wadis stretching away from the Yarmuk at Maqarin Station, which seemed to provide adequate storage area. He confirmed this by personal survey last April. The Yarmuk project, though insignifi cant by ECA’s European aid standards, may—if expeditiously completed—lend invaluable support to the western pow ers’ hopes of an effective Middle East defense, for this reason: Among the seven Arab nations there is no more loyal supporter of the west than Hashimite Jordan (which, inci dentally, has been the principal victim of the Jewish victory in Palestine). Be cause her people have only the desert and a thin sliver of land along the Jor dan from which to win their livelihood, Jordan’s economy is in deep deficit. Up to now, this deficit has mainly been made good by grants from Great Britain. The Hashimi family and government of Jordan’s new King Hussein are loyal to the interests of Great Britain, to whom the country owes its creation by Winston Churchill at Amman in 1921. The 6000-man mechanized brigade of Jordan’s famous Arab Legion, com manded by Brig. J. B. Glubb (Glubb Pasha), is the most battle-ready desert combat unit in the Arab world. In addition, Britain’s Royal Air Force maintains air stations (though they currently are without airplanes) at Amman (40 air miles east of Jerusa lem) ; at Aqaba, at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, and at Mafraq, the desert crossroads of the Haifa-Bagdad and Amman-Damascus highways. Properly nurtured, the British toehold in Jordan may be the nucleus of an effective Middle East defense frame work.
AMMAN, Transjordan — The most promising economic element in the deep ening Arab-Jew dispute over Palestine is the United States’ Point 4 plan to provide Arab Hashimite Jordan with an irrigation system by damming the Yarmuk River, just east of where the Yarmuk joins the Jordan south of the Sea of Galilee (Lake of Tiberias). If and when completed in 1956, the Yarmuk Dam will store 400,000 acre- feet of water for irrigation of 120,000 acres of Jordan desert, now useless be cause of lack of water. The dam also will provide 250,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electric energy, part of which will be used to pump the water of the Lower Jordan River into a new canal which will provide irrigation for Western Jor dan. Both sides of the'Jordan Valley, in fact, will gain heretofore unattainable water by the new project via 100 miles of irrigation canals on either side of the Jordan, as far as the northern end of the Dead Sea. Completion of these canals is planned for late 1958. The scheme will cost about $50,000,- 000, which Point 4 officers hope may in part be financed by the $225,000,000 United Nations appropriation for relief of some 1,230,000 Arab refugees now destitute in six areas in Jordan, the Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Gaza Strip. Despite its modest cost, it is doubtful if any other thing could be done for Jordan which could bring as much relief from the destitution being suffered by the 1,000,000 people now attempting to scrape subsistence from the sun-baked hills of the little desert kingdom east of the Dead Sea. Before 1949, Jordan already was suf fering a deficit economy with a popula tion of 400,000. The Arabs’ loss of the Palestine war deposited an additional 600,000 refugees from Jewish-held Pal estine into the country, of whose 34,750 square miles only 1,100,000 acres are cultivable. It is estimated that water from the Yarmuk Dam canals will aug ment agricultural production so as to give subsistence to 70,000 families. The Yarmuk Dam idea is the brain child of Mills Bunger, a former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation engineer of Phoenix, now working for the Point 4
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