Word: pro-british
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...days before Germany's Balkan campaign, a pro-German Arab nationalist, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani, overthrew five-year-old Monarch Feisal II's pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports...
...Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident was not the beginning of the Holy War, at least it was a Holy Skirmish...
...British-Iraqi Treaty such an action is perfectly permissible "in the event of the imminent threat of war," and Premier El-Gailani, who had officially come out for the treaty (perhaps without thinking the British could spare the troops), knew it. Best move he could think of was to send a pro-British staff officer hastily to welcome the British commander...
...could not have held up our face before the world, it we had not diluted our troops in Libya to support Greece against the Nazi onslaught," he declared. He also praised America for its generous aid to his country, and noted the growth of pro-British sentiment here during his 2 1/2 years' absence as High Commissioner in Canada...
With Great Britain and Greece, as well as pro-British Turkey and wavering Yugoslavia, taking heart from the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill, it looked as if Yosuke Matsuoka's trip would be a race between German power politics and time. If Germany could outmaneuver Britain and prevent the formation of a four-power front in the Balkans, then the demands on Japan might be limited to expressions of amity. But if things went badly for Germany in Europe, Japan might be called on to create a diversion for the U. S. in the Pacific. And that...