Word: iraqization
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...hoist by his own bootstraps, the Soviet press announced that Russia was concentrating no troops in the Ukraine, no naval forces in the Black Sea. The day after that Russia recognized Nazi control of Norway, Belgium, Yugoslavia. This week the U.S.S.R. announced recognition of the Naziphile Government of Iraq...
...Arabs resented Britain's splitting them up into small States. The Arabs in Palestine resented Zionism and were sniping at British troops there last week. The Arabs in Iraq's neighbor, Syria, resented being kept a French mandate. Moslems everywhere, even in India, had longstanding grudges. If the Germans could warm over these resentments and arouse the entire Moslem and Arab worlds against Britain, the geographic guts would be knocked out of the Empire. Berlin, with its talk of jihad, did its best to kindle the Arab sheiks to flame. Newspapers and radio announced loudly that Syrian Arabs...
...probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident...
...fighting in Iraq (see p. 28) threatened the whole Moslem area of Empire-India as well as the Arab world. Disaffections, torn loyalties, old grudges: all these might even swing the Moslem parts of the Empire into the enemy's arms. The disaster of Greece (see p. 38) had brought up Dominion jealousies, which did not amount to much as yet but might another...
...week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other flank in Iraq, using the old Hitlerian devices of politics, fears, racial hatred, the enemy was nibbling, nibbling...