Word: irakly
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...Sincere Irak...
...your issue of Aug. 28, p. 13, col. 1, I read under the title Irak certain views on the Assyrian incident on which I wish to make some comments...
...discard a view associated with the old Ottoman regime to which they give such sensational expression as is conveyed by the statements "massacre of Christians" and "fanatical Mohammedan slaughter." Such reference is a misrepresentation of the actual prevailing intentions on the part of Mohammedans, people and government, in Irak and other Arab countries...
...Irak, of which I am a citizen, is ruled in accordance with Western political principles and practices, and its responsible people believe in, and live up to, the modern idealism of the West...
...Assyrians had been, long before the War, in the service of agencies quite uninterested in the welfare of either Irak or the Assyrians themselves. Many a time during the past eleven years of semi-national rule they proved to be a veritable menace to the national interests of Irak. Notwithstanding the fact that most of them do not originally belong to Irak, the government of Irak has been very generous and kind to all of them. She offered them land and money, but a section of them refused to settle down or give up arms. Armed, they cross the boundary...