Word: irakli
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From Basra, Irak, they followed along the River Euphrates and in the early evening flew above the flat country to Aleppo. At Aleppo, they rested long enough to remember seeing a pretty girl, whose name they would never learn, standing in the amazed crowd that watched them fly away...
...more Royal Air Force officers crashed to meet Death, last week, in the British-mandated Kingdom of Irak. Finally Death lay shrewdly in wait while an air shambattle was staged at Colchester, England. Two daring pilots attempted to sweep low over an imaginary column of infantry. Misjudging their distance they crashed and scored for Death, last week, a total of seven...
...letters of Queen Victoria have just been published and simultaneously the life correspondence of Miss Gertrude Bell. The present generation fancies Miss Bell as a superwoman of the desert who died (TIME, July 26, 1926), some time after she and certain British expeditionary forces had set King Faisal of Irak on his throne. Interesting is the fact that the sheltered Queen wrote letters no less lusty than those of the feminine "king maker...
Naturally Miss Bell could not-like the irrepressible Colonel T. E. Lawrence (TIME, April 11)-engage in active warfare with the Turks or indulge in dynamiting their railway trains. Her important war role came later, in helping to tidy up the British victories and install the Government of Irak at Bagdad. Very womanly at heart and just a shade Victorian, she thus describes the arrival at Bagdad of her chief, the first High Commissioner to Irak, Sir Percy...
Very typical are these lines. Miss Bell was loyal to a fault toward those she trusted, womanly, and at times highly emotional. She came upon the scene in Irak after the tumult and the shooting had begun to wane; but the present prevailing peace in King Faisal's realm is very largely founded on her broad conciliatory liaison work. Dozens of the letters are pure feminine chatter, but it is never idle chatter...