Word: iraqization
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...great shakes as a world producer or a world market, the Mediterranean bulked far larger as a world highway. Through Suez and Gibraltar poured a grimy stream of freighters carrying oil from Iraq, Iran and Russia's Batum on the Black Sea, mercury from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...
...gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition based at Bagdad which is making a prehistoric survey of North Syria and Iraq. All these archeologists have to be ready to jump at the first crack of a cannon...
...there were trouble in Palestine, there would be repercussions in Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India," continued the Secretary. "... I must tell the House that we have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated...
...Balkans 50,000,000 people, in Turkey 16,000,000, in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq 5,400,000 more had, whether they knew it or not, an acute interest in these questions-and many of them knew it, 'for hundreds of thousands were under arms and being called to arms. From the Adriatic to the Caspian the little nations of eastern Europe and western Asia trembled and prepared for the worst-not knowing what the worst might...
...pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...