Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near East. "At what line in the southeast Germany would suspend its influence is problematical. . . . Equal access to the oil wells of Iraq and Iran would be an inevitable demand...
With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered...
LONDON--The "war of oil" spread over larger areas of Iraq today after a breakdown of neutral peace feelers when British bombers blasted destructively at Iraqi military positions and weakened the five-day-old siege of Habbaniya air base...
...beyond Turkey are two things Germany wants: the oil of Iraq and the Suez Canal. One arm of the final giant pincers on Suez was already moving in from Libya last week (see p. 28). How soon the other arm would reach across the Levant depended upon whether the Turks would fight...
Under such headlines as "At Last We Have Gotten In First," vastly relieved Londoners read last weekend that the political fire in Iraq, which had threatened the Mosul oil fields and Britain's prestige in the Moslem world, had been smothered, if not extinguished...