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...emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe." In his last harangue Iraq's excitable Fadhil Jamali accused Zionists of financing a recent Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The crowd booed, stamped and jeered...
...suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad's Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed through the News of the World. His eye lit on Katherine's picture. Could he, he asked by the next mail, come and congratulate such a lucky girl in person? The two arranged a rendezvous outside crowded Walham Green Underground station. Then the Prince went to Fulham to meet the family. They called him Harry...
...Shining Deed? Presiding serenely over the British machine is tall (6 ft.), urbane, 45-year-old Stewart Perowne, able adviser in Britain's Bagdad Embassy. Twenty years a Middle East hand, Perowne even more than the British Ambassadors (who come & go) symbolizes British rule in Iraq. Unlike most British officials, he openly plugs for a larger Hashimite kingdom. A favorite Perowne remark: "Iraq shines like a good deed in a naughty world...
What then was Britain's good deed? "In the first place," Stewart Perowne told a TIME correspondent recently," "we created the country." Britain's main gift has been the fundamentals of orderly government and security. Before World War I no one dared go out Bagdad's South Gate after dark for fear of bandits. Now it is relatively safe. Many Iraqis used to walk about with one hand on their heads, to ward off djinns...
...Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, had got as far as India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops ?130,000,000 and keeps increasing as long as British troops remain...