Word: iraqization
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...Axis controlled the extremities of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable naval bases in the Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Balkans, Britain would be hard...
...would be threatened from two sides. Turkey would then be given the choice of going along with the Axis or joining Russia to keep the Axis out of the Near East-something Joseph V. Stalin would probably be vastly unwilling to try. In the Near East are Syria, Iran, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia, wide open to conquest and with the rich supplies of oil the Axis needs to fight a long...
...Bombed Haifa again (claimed to have caused the British to shut off their Iraq oil pipeline...
...Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...
...Near East was the revolt of the Arabs. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a magnificent introvert from Wales, organized the Arabs for the revolt which broke Turkey's power and set up Great Britain's and France's control over what are now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Oman, Aden and the Hadramaut. That Britain planned a similar campaign appeared in July when she made Emperor Haile Selassie, the ex-Lion of Judah, her formal ally in order to have his aid in raising revolt among his African people...