Word: iraqization
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...giving news of Allied preparations in the Middle East for a drive toward southeastern Europe. Germany reported that Allied troops were massing in Syria. Italy reported at least one large convoy en route through the eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East. Berlin reported an order of the day by Iraq's Premier General Nuri Pasha es-Said to his troops saying that active service was approaching. Warned the Rome radio: "Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier of Turkey...
Ready in the East. In the Middle East, in Syria and Iraq and Persia, men in the British Ninth and Tenth Armies are also waiting. There, too, are the Poles of the Carpathian Brigade, who after the defeat of Poland sifted through the Carpathian Mountains, or through Russia or Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey and finally into the Middle East. Some of them have already fought with the Eighth Army. Now they are part of the new Polish army in Iraq. After nearly four years, they are eager for the battle to begin...
...finding land, housing, shipping, food, medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some 55,000 Jews are to be moved to Palestine. Homes may be found for other refugees in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, perhaps the U.S. and South America. Ahead lie months of ticklish negotiations. But at least the conference had mapped action, however limited...
Ready in the East. The British have two armies-the Ninth and Tenth-in Syria, Palestine, Persia and Iraq. Fortnight ago troops on Cyprus,which has been built up into a formidable base, completed maneuvers, and the men were declared "ready to take the offensive." The Allies have had time to refurbish airfields in Cyrenaica, only 200 miles from Crete, a logical objective of Allied activity in the eastern Mediterranean and a. barrier to any invasion of the Balkans. For their part, the nervous Germans moved last-week into Italian Rhodes, on Crete's flank and only 100 miles...
...training job was terrific. Whereas the Eighth Army had thousands of square miles of desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...