Word: es
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iraq into Syria, El-Gailani was finally ousted by the Iraqi Parliament. When his Cabinet fell, Rome newspapers freely predicted trouble for the British in Iraq. Into the Premiership went Lieut. General Taha El-Hashimi, in as Foreign Minister was Britain's great & good friend General Seyid Nuri Es-Said...
...week's end all was desperately tense along the Tigris and Euphrates. In Trans-Jordan's capital city of Amman, Prince Abdul Illah sulked, conferred with General Nuri Es-Said. In Bagdad, El-Gailani played a close-to-the-chest hand of international poker, King Feisal played in the palace gardens beside the Tigris, Sherif Sharaf read the Koran. In London a weary Foreign Office profanely hoped that, since Britain could spare none of her armed forces to police Iraq, a diplomatic miracle might come to pass in the able brain of Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the new Ambassador...
...growing in France was indicated by a story out of Paris, where university students have been forbidden to stage any kind of demonstration against the German occupation. One demonstration which the Germans did not understand was put on by 1,000 students marching up the Champs Elysées behind leaders carrying two 14-foot bamboo poles. Every time the leaders raised the poles the students cried "Vive!" The French word for pole is gaule. Two poles is deux gaudes, or De Gaulle...
...classes and on business interests. German military prestige with the Brazilian Army grows with each new success in Europe. Military missions go back & forth between Rio and Berlin; Berlin courts Army, Navy and Air Corps heads with assiduity. Last April. War Minister Dutra and Chief of Staff Góes Monteiro were given Germany's highest decoration awarded to foreigners, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, and officers down to the rank of colonel were decorated. In a country with 75% illiteracy and a dictatorship from above, one Dutra or Góes Monteiro...
...stersund Es'-ter-soond