Word: iraqization
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...From Iraq's Senate and Chamber of Deputies came furious protest: [The resolution] would strengthen the efforts of Axis propagandists to persuade the Arab peoples . . . that the American Government . . . [has] no sympathy with Arab peoples. . . . Any increase in Jewish immigration into Palestine would eventually result in bloodshed...
...protests from Iraq were followed by similar protests from the British-dominated governments of Egypt, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. Alarmed, the U.S. military suddenly decided that the resolution was no matter for Congressional debate, but touched on high military policy...
...trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
World War II found him a lieutenant general, commanding in Egypt. This side spot became a hot spot after the fall of France, and Wilson became the "broom" of Wa veil's famous "broom and dustpan" tactics of sweeping up the Italians. Later he handled the campaigns in Iraq and Syria with notable deftness, using small forces to head off the pressing danger of German penetration into the Middle East. In 1943 he held the Middle Eastern command, with the Ninth and Tenth Armies, the job from which he was ordered to Algiers and the overall Mediterranean command...
...Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...