Word: irak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...
...Persia was setting over Turkey in a final blaze of glory when two men in officer's uniforms emerged from the officers' mess at Mosul airport. Taking seats on a bench overlooking the field they watched the light dim in the west. One of the two was Irak's dictator, General Bakri Sidki Pasha, waiting for a plane to fly to Turkey to witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly...
Ever since Irak achieved "nationhood" by ceasing to be a British Mandate and entering the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932), London has been anxious lest this key Kingdom on the route to India take the pan-Arab bit in its teeth and kick over the traces. These fears were sharpened by the sudden death of Irak's King Feisal, who had always been able to see things more or less from British angles (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Last week his young son King Ghazi, educated in British boys' schools, was abruptly mastered by pan-Arab chiefs...
British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
...Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property...