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Government by Whom? The Congress wanted immediate "recognition of India's freedom and right to self-determination." Wrote Congress President Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad to Sir Stafford Cripps: "The Committee do not think that there is any inherent difficulty in the way of constitutional changes during the war. . . . Certain important changes [can be made]. The rest can be left to future arrangements and adjustments. I might remind you that the British Prime Minister actually proposed a union of France and England on the fall of France. No greater or more fundamental change could be imagined, and this was suggested...
...Germans began working on in 1888, left four-sevenths completed in 1914) was intended to make the Kaiser's dream come true. The mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were living under the Union Jack...
Fulminating in Basra, Prince Abdul IIlah's first thought was to appeal to the benevolently watchful British Government. To all Iraq, and most particularly London and Cairo, the Regent broadcast word that El-Gailani and a small group of Army officers had been seduced by Axis fifth columnists,* were trying to separate Britain from 4,000,000 tons of oil per annum and the all-important friendship of the Arab world...
...despair, Prince Abdul Illah tried the last shot in his locker, a counter-coup which was promptly squelched by the Basra garrison, then lit out for the sanctuary of Trans-Jordan in an R.A.F. plane...
...week's end all was desperately tense along the Tigris and Euphrates. In Trans-Jordan's capital city of Amman, Prince Abdul Illah sulked, conferred with General Nuri Es-Said. In 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...