Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, the key portfolios-Finance, Defense, External Affairs and Home Affairs-are all held by British officials. Purred Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for the Indian National Congress: "The announcement [of the appointments] . . . does not affect the stand taken by the Congress nor does it meet the Congress demands." Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who is thinner even than Saint Gandhi and is President of the All-India Moslem League, threatened disciplinary action against those who have anything to do with the Council...
...sadder than Vichy's eclipse in the Levant might have been the fate of all British Middle East defense had not Syria been taken. Beginning with the Iraq revolt last spring when they used Syrian bases to fly aid to Rashid Ali El-Gailani, the Germans had increasingly filtered into the country. If the Axis had got control of Syria the British Middle East Command might as well have folded its tents and gone home...
...airborne assault which landed in the desert behind the Iraqi, cutting off their retreat to Bagdad. By week's end, with the help of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks (fighters) and Martin 1675 (bombers), the British had the situation well enough in hand so that pro-Axis Premier Rashid Ali El-Gailani and his Defense Minister were reported to have requested visas to flee to Turkey. Incidentally, in the first dogfight between a Curtiss P-40 and a Messerschmitt, the German was shot down...
...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
...Hitler's Moslem friends could not do any better than Iraq's Ra^hid Ali El-Gailani was doing last week, if the British Navy kept Nazi troops from reaching Syria, if the drive on Egypt stayed stalled, then Ambassador von Papen would have to try to get the Turkish front door open. Whether to burst or to pry would be decided by his boss, and would depend on Hitler's timetable...