Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
Keystone Contention. Syria, slightly smaller than Nebraska, is the keystone of the whole Middle East. Firmly established there, the Germans could: 1) complete the encirclement of Turkey; 2) march on to Iraq and its oil fields; 3) execute a super-colossal grand slam on Palestine, Trans-Jordan and the Suez Canal, which, coupled with a drive from Libya, would chase the British out of the Mediterranean Theater. As it stood, the Germans had already bypassed Cyprus...
...beat the Jerries man to fighting man. The evacuation was a race against time and the Nazis. The hurrying enemy surrounded and captured some 10,000 of these bedraggled men before the British were able to get them off. Crete was lost. It would be hard now to hold Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. The Mediterranean was no longer Admiral Cunningham's Pond. And yet the British were apparently not downhearted. They were confident that Crete was the last place where Germany would have undisputed air superiority. An R.A.F. spokesman in Cairo said: "There is no chance...
...Back Doors. The British would doubtless make every effort to dislodge the Germans from the oil fields. But it appeared last week that the Germans might be able to supply their forces in Iraq through Turkey. It was reported in Vichy that the first German force straddled the Bagdad-Istanbul railway and refused to get off it unless the Turks allowed German equipment to ride its rails across Turkey...
Captain Jimmy's View. In Cairo Captain Roosevelt hobnobbed with Kings -Farouk of Egypt, George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia. He had a talk with General Sir Archibald Wavell. Then he gave out his personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...