Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...
...Near East was the revolt of the Arabs. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a magnificent introvert from Wales, organized the Arabs for the revolt which broke Turkey's power and set up Great Britain's and France's control over what are now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Oman, Aden and the Hadramaut. That Britain planned a similar campaign appeared in July when she made Emperor Haile Selassie, the ex-Lion of Judah, her formal ally in order to have his aid in raising revolt among his African people...
...great shakes as a world producer or a world market, the Mediterranean bulked far larger as a world highway. Through Suez and Gibraltar poured a grimy stream of freighters carrying oil from Iraq, Iran and Russia's Batum on the Black Sea, mercury from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...
...gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition based at Bagdad which is making a prehistoric survey of North Syria and Iraq. All these archeologists have to be ready to jump at the first crack of a cannon...
...there were trouble in Palestine, there would be repercussions in Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India," continued the Secretary. "... I must tell the House that we have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated...