Word: iraqization
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...news for the British in the Middle East and the Free French in Syria, for Laval might order the Vichy fleet and land forces to reconquer Syria at the same time that Hitler started a drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq and the Persian Gulf...
...Marshal also countenanced certain outright military aid to the Axis. French Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...
...hard going and easy to defend-if, after Hitler's ceaseless diplomatic pressure, Turkey still chose to defend herself.* More likely, Hitler would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian Ocean...
...Allies were hastily preparing their own rival program. Most of the thousands of warplanes exported by Britain last year had been sent to Libya and the Middle East. The British were pouring huge funds for defense projects into Syria, Palestine and Iraq...
...good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active...