Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Paul Knabenshue, 58, U.S. Minister to Iraq; of tetanus after an operation; in Bagdad. He signed the first commercial treaty between the U.S. and Iraq...
...mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls and their bouquets, paid tribute to Pilot Iinuma for being "thoroughly fit physically for a job of this kind...
...Turkey, German circles whispered that the German colony was evacuating en masse. Turkey stood squarely in the way of what seemed the most logical German drive: toward Suez, the oil of Iraq and the Caucasus, and the eastern relief of the Axis in Libya. There were constant reports of German massing in Bulgaria, just across the Turkish frontier. The Allies were alarmed by reports that Turkey, on peaceful assurances from Germany, had signed a treaty with Germany and Bulgaria calling for the rebuilding of bridges across the Turkish-Bulgarian border which had been removed during Germany's Balkan advance...
Thus Allied promises of last summer to free both Syria and Lebanon were fulfilled. The Biblical land of silk, olives and tall cedars (long since decimated for lumber), a western terminus of the oil pipeline from Iraq, gained complete independence for the first time since its political separation from Syria in 1864. Lebanon's newly elected President Alfred Nacache, formerly Prime Minister under the French Mandate, set about choosing a Cabinet representing both Christians and Moslems...
MADRID--Diplomatic reports from Berne tonight said that Germany may soon officially request Switzerland to expel all British nationals, including diplomats, within a certain fixed time, in the same manner that German and Italian nationals and diplomats were expelled from Syris, Iraq and Iran...