Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish Women's armies to day: one in Poland, the underground army of nameless soldiers who know they are fighting a good fight. Another, the Pestkas, the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, who had gone through "thick & thin" with the Polish Army in Poland, in Russia, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Great Britain. They had fought not only against the enemy, but also against the epidemics which broke out among the Polish evacuees from Soviet Russia. Many of them died in this fight...
...Arabian pipeline [but] until some satisfactory substitute is found ... I am for the line. The oilfields of the Middle East are practically certain to be of paramount importance as a source of the world's oil supplies for a generation to come. . . . The fact that the Iraq Petroleum Co.* is even now asking for steel with which to build a line of substantially the same size ... is sufficient answer as to whether additional petroleum is needed in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...From Iraq's Senate and Chamber of Deputies came furious protest: [The resolution] would strengthen the efforts of Axis propagandists to persuade the Arab peoples . . . that the American Government . . . [has] no sympathy with Arab peoples. . . . Any increase in Jewish immigration into Palestine would eventually result in bloodshed...
...protests from Iraq were followed by similar protests from the British-dominated governments of Egypt, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. Alarmed, the U.S. military suddenly decided that the resolution was no matter for Congressional debate, but touched on high military policy...
...Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...