Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
World War II found him a lieutenant general, commanding in Egypt. This side spot became a hot spot after the fall of France, and Wilson became the "broom" of Wa veil's famous "broom and dustpan" tactics of sweeping up the Italians. Later he handled the campaigns in Iraq and Syria with notable deftness, using small forces to head off the pressing danger of German penetration into the Middle East. In 1943 he held the Middle Eastern command, with the Ninth and Tenth Armies, the job from which he was ordered to Algiers and the overall Mediterranean command...
...months after its start, Al Mukhtar Min (Selections From) has reached its wartime circulation ceiling-125,000 copies. With adequate paper supplies, printing equipment and transport facilities, Reader's Digest men think it might have reached to 200,000 in a few more months. In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia the natives swamp their dealers for this newest Digest foreign venture...
...they have been in actual military control of Syria and Lebanon since 1941. They were not averse to a fading of rival French prestige and power in the Arab sphere. But successful revolt in Lebanon might give ideas to the Arabs of British-mandated Transjordan and Palestine, British-allied Iraq and Egypt...
Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and Iraq's Premier Nuri Pasha Es-Said are two of Britain's best friends in the Arab world. Nahas and Nuri poked cautiously last fortnight at the most vexing question in the Middle East: Pan-Arabism. The two pashas said they were looking for ways to "increase our cultural, economic and political cooperation." Their talks looked toward more talks with other Arab pacemakers, perhaps eventually an Arab congress...