Word: irakly
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...example just given by the greatest Empire in the world," cried Premier Nuri Pasha, representing King Feisal of Irak, "deserves, and richly deserves to be studied and followed.... Our hearts are full, brimming with gratitude...
...Irak was "planted" in more senses than one when the League of Nations slipped it like an egg into the British nest in 1921 with the status of a Mandate. Probably Britons will always control most of the Kingdom's Mosul oil through their ably drawn contracts. Last week. however, Mother Briton clucked loudly at Geneva, announced that Irak has officially hatched into an "Independent Kingdom." To certify Irak's independence Irak was made a member state of the League of Nations and batches of League statesmen made speeches...
...After long centuries of foreign dominations Irak has finally recovered her liberty,'" said Greek Delegate Nicholas Politis, presiding last week over the League Assembly. "A new state has come peacefully into existence, whereas in past centuries that state could probably only have come into existence by revolution....As we see the League of Nations doing its regular work so successfully,I think we realize that the crisis from which the League is supposed to be suffering is apparent, rather than real...
Actually it was Great Britain, not the League of Nations, which permitted Irak to achieve last week a status thus far denied to Syria (French Mandate) and Palestine & Transjordania (British Mandates). Dryly Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey remarked: "I trust we soon will be able to welcome Syria...
...Bagdad, capital of the Kingdom of Irak, is a thriving beehive of 250.000 busy, haggling souls. Mecca, one of the two capitals of the Land of Saud, is a Moslem "show place" of only 60.000 which receives and scandalously mulcts each year some 70,000 pious pilgrims...