Word: iraqization
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...beat the Jerries man to fighting man. The evacuation was a race against time and the Nazis. The hurrying enemy surrounded and captured some 10,000 of these bedraggled men before the British were able to get them off. Crete was lost. It would be hard now to hold Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. The Mediterranean was no longer Admiral Cunningham's Pond. And yet the British were apparently not downhearted. They were confident that Crete was the last place where Germany would have undisputed air superiority. An R.A.F. spokesman in Cairo said: "There is no chance...
...British were not overly sanguine. They thought El-Gailani's troops might withdraw to the north of Iraq, to the area which makes hot and barren Iraq so worthy of a scrap: the oil fields around Mosul. Last week London reported that strong forces of German airborne troops, complemented with bombers and fighters, had made their way across Syria and were well established in the oil-bearing area...
...appeared last week that the airborne Germans who were rushing across Syria to Iraq were not particularly solicitous for their puppet revolt; that was serving its purpose of worrying the British very well unsupported. The Germans headed straight...
...Back Doors. The British would doubtless make every effort to dislodge the Germans from the oil fields. But it appeared last week that the Germans might be able to supply their forces in Iraq through Turkey. It was reported in Vichy that the first German force straddled the Bagdad-Istanbul railway and refused to get off it unless the Turks allowed German equipment to ride its rails across Turkey...
Captain Jimmy's View. In Cairo Captain Roosevelt hobnobbed with Kings -Farouk of Egypt, George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia. He had a talk with General Sir Archibald Wavell. Then he gave out his personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...