The Baghdad Set_ Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45
29 Bowra wrote of him: ‘Talk was his supreme gift, and he applied it to enrich- ing the life of those around him.’ Bowra, Memor ...
© The Author(s) 2019 31 A. O’Sullivan, The Baghdad Set, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6_2 CHAPTER 2 Prelude to Conflic ...
32 proprietary union flag was ever planted in Iraq; no territorial stake claimed; no indigenous population exploited. During the ...
33 German kindergarten was opened in Baghdad and was attended by German and Arab children aged between 5 and 10. All secondary-s ...
34 of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husayni (1897–1974), and in his wake a host of Palestinian and Syrian sycophants. A year later ...
35 cultivating land controlled by Baghdadi politicians and endowed land over which Rashid Ali himself exercised jurisdiction.^17 ...
36 heard at first hand from Ghazi’s cousin, Emir Abdulillah, with whom de Gaury was on intimate terms. According to Abdulillah, ...
37 (1892–1965) was flirting with political disaster, al-Husayni doubtless real- ized that he had overplayed his hand and had mad ...
38 Foreign Office (FO) in June. Cornwallis’s lucid description of the opening military move by Rashid Ali against Habbaniya at t ...
39 the embassy was surrounded by Iraqi police and, in spite of the fact that in principle diplomatic relations had not been seve ...
40 primitive but bearable conditions in a large shed for about three weeks. The food and the heat were awful, but probably no wo ...
41 and to hoist it from a pole in the grounds that was not visible from the street.^33 There were other things to ensure that mo ...
42 The precarious communications situation made such exchanges unique, in that cables from the FO to the ambassador were first r ...
43 See R.M. Douglas, ‘Did Britain Use Chemical Weapons in Mandatory Iraq?’ Journal of Modern History 81, no. 4 (December 2009) ...
44 Ib Monthly Summary: June 1941, CICI Iraq, 1 July 1941, AIR 29/2510, TNA. For more about the Shawkat brothers, see Chap. 6. I ...
45 University Press, 1953), 276–7. As an accomplished Arabist with many years’ experience in Iraq, Longrigg is an important gene ...
46 in the Mosul consulate. Some of those unable to find sanctuary were badly treated by the Iraqi rebels. Stark, Dust in the Lio ...
© The Author(s) 2019 47 A. O’Sullivan, The Baghdad Set, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6_3 CHAPTER 3 War within War The ...
48 To say that the Auswärtiges Amt (German Foreign Office [GFO]) was insincere in its verbal enthusiasm for the nationalist and ...
49 effectively annihilating the Jewish homeland and handing Palestine to the Arabs, Hitler designated the USSR as his priority a ...
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