Word: iraqization
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...willing to give assurance that .your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran...
...Arab State of Iraq is as juicy with oil as an olive. So far it has hung on the British economic tree, but last week Britain, experienced as it is in handling olive branches, began to be afraid the Iraq olive would fall...
Thousands of Iraqi crowded Bagdad's dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will...
...Sent to be educated at England's Harrow, he learned how to dismantle a high-compression engine before he learned to speak good English. Far too young (12) for a British driving license, he got special permission to roar around Brooklands racing track all by himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long his craving for speed got him into the air, where he loved to stunt. He took delivery last month...
Died. Ghazi ibu Feisal. 27. second King of Iraq (first: his late, famed father Feisal, placed on the throne by Great Britain in 1921 at the instance of "Lawrence of Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency...