Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin hailed Britain'snew 20-year alliance with Iraq as the start of an era "regularizing and expressing the friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...
...three days of rioting, eleven people were killed. Regent Abdul Illah nervously announced: "Whereas ... the treaty does not realize national rights and aspirations and cannot be a useful instrument to foster Anglo-Iraqi friendship, we promise the Iraqi people that no such treaty will be ratified...
Iraq's rulers had never spent much energy in improving the lot of their people. But in a burst of zeal remarkable in the Baghdad summer, they tried to suppress Iraqi Communists whose appeal for support is based on Iraq's mass misery...
While Iraq's young Regent Abdul Illah (whose approval is necessary for the death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...
...Unsightly Iraqi national headdress, resembling oversized U.S. Army fore-&-aft caps, known to Westerners as the only headgear a man can) leave on a Middl'e East hatrack without fear of theft...