Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much for rumors. These were facts: > The Nazis were already in French-mandated Syria en route to Iraq and the Suez Canal. Last week Vichy lamely excused the alighting of Nazi planes on Syrian airports as "forced landings." > > The Nazis were already heavily fortifying French Morocco, where General Maxime Weygand, Commander of the French North African Army, has winked at Nazi activities. The Moroccan port of Casablanca, on the Atlantic, was already in use as a Nazi submarine base...
...first or second week of June, the machine would be ready to roll in earnest. Through Turkey by guile or by force, through Syria with the permission of Vichy, through Iraq with the support of anti-British Arabs, through Palestine and Trans-Jordan and right to the Canal it would roll. At the same time the Axis force in Libya, which was still sparring experimentally last week, would drive across Egypt. Also at the same time the Luftwaffe, in deadly concentration, would "bomb the British ships until the sea is black with their wreckage." Such was the German plan...
...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
Giant Leapfrog. Until Turkey might be persuaded either to do something or to do nothing, the Axis plan was apparently to play a giant game of leapfrog, transporting men, small artillery, light tanks, food and maintenance supplies by plane from Greece to Iraq. In Iraq they would, for the time being, fight a kind of vanguard delaying action, keeping the British from getting firmly established in the area until they themselves could...
...Cairo, lank, balding metaphorist Captain James Roosevelt described the situation in Iraq as "well in hand, but rather deep-seated...