Word: iraqization
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...newshawks all knew that Wendell Willkie was going to Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Russia because he wanted to go. A reporter's question gave the President a chance to put the emphasis the other way, that Mr. Willkie will act as the President's man. "Mr. President, can you say what you desire him to do in these countries?" The President could: Mr. Willkie will simply go abroad and tell "the truth" about the U.S. war effort-by which the President explained he meant that production was booming and strikes were negligible...
...perhaps to arrange for entry of U.S. British forces from Persia to help defend the remainder of the Caucasus and keep open the Caspian as a supply route. In northern Persia the United Nations had collected men and war materials. Behind them were a string of air bases across Iraq and Persia, at Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. The time might be at hand for a new move-if Russia consented, for American and British soldiers to join in active defense of Soviet soil...
...German succeeded north of Rostov, he might still have the power to crash down through the Caucasus into the Allies' last local source of oil, the fields of Iraq, Persia, Bahrein...
...even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East Air Force. Thus India was further weakened and General...
...Burmese masterpiece and nearly three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...