Word: regente
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When negotiations for a new Anglo-Iraqi treaty were going swimmingly in Britain, the Foreign Office thought it would be a nice gesture for King George VI to send Iraq's regent, Prince Abdul
...Oklahoma, which had jerry-built a law school for Negroes following the Sipuel decision, again refused to admit Ada Sipuel* to the regular University of Oklahoma law school. But when seven more qualified Negroes applied for Oklahoma graduate schools, a state regent urged that Negro graduates be admitted to Oklahoma-just to save the state money...
...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...
Next day the crowds demonstrated again, to thank the Regent. One paper hailed "the martyrs of the treaty which Britain wrote with ink to bondage Iraq 20 years, and which Iraqis obliterated with blood in three days...