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Word: iraqi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again: "If [the United Nations] proves unable to provide security, we shall have to find other means to guarantee our safety." Everyone knew that by "other means" he meant a continued alliance with the British. Nuri added that there would probably be no early revision of the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Hashimite Huddle | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

That treaty insured British paramountcy in Iraq. It gave Britain: 1) the right to maintain two important bases; 2) management of the Iraqi State Railways and the oil port of Basra; 3) the monopoly of providing all foreign technical experts needed by the Iraqi Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Hashimite Huddle | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...last 30 years, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Harris has progressed from attacking Iraqi and Indian tribes men in a bailing-wire kite to crumpling the huge Nazi war machine with his powerful, purring Bomber Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Apoplectic Advice | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: A Bas la France! | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Cadaverous James M. ("Chink") Landis, on leave of absence as Dean of Harvard's Law School, ex-Chairman of SEC, ex-member of the Federal Trade Commission, now finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Chink & Beanie | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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