Word: iraqization
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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
Lest they feel that he is different, he scratches and squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...game lasts too long. What moves, wondered rival Arab leaders, was the wily brain planning to make in neighboring Palestine? Traditionally the bad boy of Arab politicians, Abdullah has never made any secret of his ambition to expand his holdings, at the expense of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or of all four of those states...
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...
...Britain, where he had gone to sign the treaty, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr hopefully remarked that "during our temporary absence, some destructive elements in the country . . . exploited some innocent students and succeeded in creating disorders. On our return to Iraq we shall explain the ... treaty to Parliament and people...