Word: iraqization
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LONDON--The "war of oil" spread over larger areas of Iraq today after a breakdown of neutral peace feelers when British bombers blasted destructively at Iraqi military positions and weakened the five-day-old siege of Habbaniya air base...
...beyond Turkey are two things Germany wants: the oil of Iraq and the Suez Canal. One arm of the final giant pincers on Suez was already moving in from Libya last week (see p. 28). How soon the other arm would reach across the Levant depended upon whether the Turks would fight...
...from the London Times to end his civil-disobedience campaign in view of Britain's growing peril, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied curtly that the campaign "must continue at all costs." In Iran tension increased with the fear that Russia was preparing to drive toward the Persian Gulf. In Iraq Nazi plotters had already unsettled Britain's hold (see p. 37), and Nazi Schemester Franz von Papen appeared to have cowed Turkey into some sort of agreement with the Axis. Egypt awaited a fresh Nazi drive. Object: Suez...
Under such headlines as "At Last We Have Gotten In First," vastly relieved Londoners read last weekend that the political fire in Iraq, which had threatened the Mosul oil fields and Britain's prestige in the Moslem world, had been smothered, if not extinguished...
...Bagdad, El-Gailani played a close-to-the-chest hand of international poker, King Feisal played in the palace gardens beside the Tigris, Sherif Sharaf read the Koran. In London a weary Foreign Office profanely hoped that, since Britain could spare none of her armed forces to police Iraq, a diplomatic miracle might come to pass in the able brain of Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the new Ambassador to Iraq and a longtime inner-circle political adviser to the Iraq Government...