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Word: gabbrielli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Holy Skirmish | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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