Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Peacefully Inclined. One country pledged to resist aggression against Greece was Turkey, keeper of the Dardanelles and sprawling impediment on the Axis overland route to the Suez Canal and oil wells of Mosul and Iran. Turkey's astute little president, General Ismet Inönü, kept his ambassador lingering around the Kremlin in case Silent Joe Stalin should decide to speak encouragingly. Under Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, comrade under fire of the late great Kamal Ataturk and Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army, 400,000 troops crowded trains running to Adrianople, a few miles from the Bulgarian...
...Balkans, Hitler might have pressing reasons for intervening. Moreover, if Hitler is to pick up some of the French, Dutch and British possessions in the Far East his route in that direction leads through Istanbul and Bagdad. That also is his route to the oil fields of Mosul...
...whom they dislike, is only that they dislike the Italians more, could offer no opposition. There would be imminent danger that the Arabs of Palestine, still piqued at Britain's unfulfilled promises of 1915, would revolt. And certainly the termini at Haifa and Tripoli of the pipelines from Mosul would fall into Italian hands. Britain's hold on the Near East would collapse...
...other side of Alexandria, at Haifa in Palestine, where the British oil pipeline from Mosul reaches tidewater, the Italians claimed a success last week which the British did not deny. Ten big Italian bombers, flying at great altitude from the Dodecanese Islands, giving the British bases at Cyprus a wide berth, dumped 50 bombs on the Haifa oil terminal and refinery, started fires which burned for days afterward. British pursuit ships from a base on Mt. Carmel were too late to overhaul the hit-&-run Italians...
Further south, based in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, is a fourth Army, of perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the 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...