Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times arrived. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the British commander in Persia and Iraq, sat down to the only indoor amusement which, at 61, he finds really worth while. The issues in the bundle from the Army post office were wrinkled and limp after the long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column...
This disaster would be the loss of Persia, Iraq and the whole Middle Eastern bridge between the main land masses of Europe, Africa and Asia (see map, pp. 34-35). Marshal Timoshenko. fighting for the Volga and the southern Caucasus (see p. 36), is also fighting to avert that catastrophe. So is General Alexander, at his gate to Egypt and Suez (see p. 34). If either fails, or both fail, "Jumbo" Wilson will find the enemy on his bridge. His task is to assume that both will fail, and to do all that can be done to retrieve their failures...
...Germans, pressing through Egypt and the Caucasus, had compelled Britain and the U.S. to begin, hurriedly and late, the building of a preventive army in Iraq and Persia under General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson (TIME, Aug. 31). The British already had some forces there, but the sudden appointment of General Wilson and the feverish reinforcement were evidence that, in effect, a new army was being created for a new front...
...more importance later would be the fact that, behind the Caucasus defenders' backs, were growing armies of the United Nations in Iraq and Iran...
...Near East is the best oil hunting ground. Russia, Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Palestine, Turkey, Egypt, Rumania promise more oil from future discoveries than any other region. The eastern Mediterranean is one end of the "oil axis." The other end is the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean area. These two pools already contain two-thirds of the world's proved reserves...