Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a fanatical anti-Zionist ever since the British appointed him as Mufti in 1921. In 1937, after a murder, he was wafted out of Palestine, where a warrant still exists for his arrest. During the war, he was accused of trafficking with Hitler and Mussolini, of fomenting the Iraq revolt of 1941, and of urging on Germany a systematic policy of exterminating Jews. Last year he entered France from Switzerland, and has been living luxuriously at a villa 13 miles from Paris under mild police surveillance which left his movements unhampered...
...aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...sixties, Abdullah has finally become a king like his younger brother, the late great Feisal of Iraq. In Amman last week rumors circulated that Trans-Jordanian independence was only the beginning. Abdullah wanted a full-time job; he hoped to unite Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and part of Palestine into a "Greater Syria...
...found, in a transcript of the Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
Meanwhile, Red Army tanks and planes were a mere 20 miles from Teheran, at Karaj. Armored columns were said to be moving west by night towards Lake Urmia, near the Turkish and Iraq frontiers. But the British (who garrison Iraq) and the Turks (who are fully mobilized) stayed cannily silent. Both were old hands at playing the nerves game...