Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weakness. "We are convinced," said Foreign Minister Saracoglu, "that our neutrality is useful to all the belligerents." The danger always lay in Turkey's geographical position. Hitler must either conquer or by-pass her on any thirsty march toward the oil fields of the Russian Caucasus or of Iraq and Iran...
...seventh birthday morning last week, Iraq's dark-skinned child King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed...
...news for the British in the Middle East and the Free French in Syria, for Laval might order the Vichy fleet and land forces to reconquer Syria at the same time that Hitler started a drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq and the Persian Gulf...
...Marshal also countenanced certain outright military aid to the Axis. French Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...
...good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active...