Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club last night at the Harvard Club of Boston, Kermit Roosevelt '12, told of his experience while serving as a captain of the Motor Machine Gun Corps of the British Army in Mesopotamia...
...said that Mesopotamia was little known to Americans, but that is a country of great natural resources, and that as yet it was practically undeveloped. Except along the courses of the rivers the country is a desert, but there are many recently discovered oil fields which are now being used by France and England. It is in this barren area that the Desert-Arabs, the remnants of the original inhabitants of the country, live. Wandering about the desert in tribes, they consider themselves the highest class socially of all the people of the country. They have an especially deep hatred...
...July, 1917, Mr. Roosevelt was commissioned as captain in the British Army, and served for a year in Mesopotamia with the Motor Machine Gun Corps. He was transferred to the 7th Field Artillery of the 1st Division of the United States Army in June, 1918. He has been awarded the British Military Cross and the Montenegrin War Cross...
...Roosevelt has related his Mesopotamia experiences in a successful and interesting book called "War in the Garden of Eden...
...Travellers' Club: Keruit Roosevelt '12 will speak on Mesopotamia" at the Harvard Club of Boston...