Word: iraqization
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...Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, arriving for a conference at Abdullah's palace, bowed low, kissed Abdullah's carefully manicured little hand, then placed it reverently against his forehead in the Arab sign of deference. There was more hand-kissing as Abdullah inspected the Iraq ist Brigade, which had just arrived to reinforce his Arab Legion. Said Abdullah: "I shall enter Palestine after May 15 ... even if the Arab League decides to accept armistice proposals...
Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
...refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...
...Announced that he has appealed to "certain interested governments"-presumably those of Saudi Arabia and Iraq-to exercise "restraint in dealing with the Palestine situation...
...treaty draft which, the British hoped, would keep Abdullah happy. Its terms promised to continue his military subsidy, cut down (on paper) British rights to use Trans-Jordan as a military base. But the British, fearing a repetition of the painful episode when Iraqi mobs had forced the Iraq government to reject a similar treaty after it had been signed and announced in London, were taking no chances this time. Abdullah's delegation took back only "fairly definite proposals," not a signed treaty. Said one British official: "We don't make the same mistake twice...