Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Paul Knabenshue, 58, U.S. Minister to Iraq; of tetanus after an operation; in Bagdad. He signed the first commercial treaty between the U.S. and Iraq...
...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...mission was reported preparing to visit Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared...
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said: "Master, just now when I was in the market place I was jostled by a woman in the 'crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find...