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...they fought- even if they won-he also could plainly see on the map Adolf Hitler's chosen path via Czechoslovakia at least as far as Turkey (see p. 23), with echoes from the past of Kaiser Wilhelm's dream of an axis from "Berlin to Bagdad." In its relative size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows a valid quid pro quo is impossible in the long run, then the Democracies...
Tactful Dr. Funk proclaimed at a Turkish banquet last week: "The principal desire of Germany is establishment of the closest possible cooperation among the nations-thus leading to their Welfare, Peace and Happiness." This was a different note indeed from Kaiser Wilhelm II's bluster about "Berlin to Bagdad" and the "Drang nach Osten" or German "pressure toward the East." Anxious to preserve the new amenities between Germany and Britain established at Munich, yet anxious, too, to cash in on Germany's freshly won kudos, Dr. Funk opened as quietly as possible a Turkish credit with Germany...
Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad. Although Iraq's western boundary is separated from Palestine by 200 miles of British-mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
...Ruth decided to marry an English construction engineer in Iraq named Brooks, Helen went along. We Married an Englishman, a much more proper book than it sounds, is their good-humored, comically illustrated account of the two years they spent in a tiny village 300 miles south of Bagdad, where Ruth's fiancé was building an air base...
...bustling American and European salesmen who made the inaugural trip were delighted that they had been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...