Word: hashimi
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Britain), had allowed many an Italian troublemaker to slip from 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...
First came the resignation of Premier El-Hashimi. He charged that the Regent was fostering "indiscriminate favoritism and pompousness" at the Iraqi court. Before the ink was dry on the resignation, into the Government offices at Bagdad strutted the deus ex machina, El-Gailani, declaiming "I am Premier. I will save the beloved country from the poison of favoritism." Just to make sure, civil servants called the Army, had the coup okayed...