Word: iraqization
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...sixties, Abdullah has finally become a king like his younger brother, the late great Feisal of Iraq. In Amman last week rumors circulated that Trans-Jordanian independence was only the beginning. Abdullah wanted a full-time job; he hoped to unite Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and part of Palestine into a "Greater Syria...
...found, in a transcript of the Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
...Continents and oceans are plainly only parts of a whole, seen, as I have seen them, from the air. England and America are parts. Russia and China, Egypt, Syria and Turkey, Iraq and Iran are also parts. And it is inescapable that there can be no peace for any part of the world unless the foundations of peace are made secure throughout all parts of the world."-Wendell Willkie in One World...
Meanwhile, Red Army tanks and planes were a mere 20 miles from Teheran, at Karaj. Armored columns were said to be moving west by night towards Lake Urmia, near the Turkish and Iraq frontiers. But the British (who garrison Iraq) and the Turks (who are fully mobilized) stayed cannily silent. Both were old hands at playing the nerves game...
...Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British Government would have...