Word: iraqi
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...