Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established in new Eastern kingdoms: Father Husein in Hejaz (whence his son AH was chased by that tough man Ibn Saud), Faisal in Syria (whence he was chased by the French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long...
...triumphs. Of 212 divisions in all, probably not over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many potential uses (see map). A drive in the East could weaken the British Empire gravely. Meanwhile bombing would continue Britain's terrible wearing down...
...Axis controlled the extremities of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable naval bases in the Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Balkans, Britain would be hard...
...would be threatened from two sides. Turkey would then be given the choice of going along with the Axis or joining Russia to keep the Axis out of the Near East-something Joseph V. Stalin would probably be vastly unwilling to try. In the Near East are Syria, Iran, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia, wide open to conquest and with the rich supplies of oil the Axis needs to fight a long...
...Bombed Haifa again (claimed to have caused the British to shut off their Iraq oil pipeline...