Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also found time to reduce the staff of 33 White House servants by approximately one-third. (Servants' salaries are paid by the Government, but the President must feed them out of his own pocket.) This week she held her first state dinner-for Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq...
...Portent. But the Kings had forgathered for more than fun. Their meeting, more than a symbol of union between the opposite ends of the Pan-Arab political axis, was a portent of Pan-Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent...
...Poland and the Balkans would vex Anglo-Russian relations no more, than those relations suffered a new wrench.* This time it came in Iran-traditionally a prospective Russian Lebensraum, traditionally a very tender spot with Britons. For Iran lies like a massive wedge between British India and British-controlled Iraq. It is also the source of much of Britain's Near Eastern...
...Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week. Nahas's downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
Your statement in TIME (Aug. 28) that "The Arab peoples still had done next to nothing to win favors at the peace table" is most unfair. You seem to have forgotten that Iraq, an Arab country, has declared war on the Axis Powers voluntarily, and has since contributed in every way to the war effort. It is a base for our Allies, and all the country's economy, manpower, communication, and transportation have been used to defeat the common enemy. The people have endured all hardships without complaint...