The Archive · 1941

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Bombay, May 13, A vivid account of the widespread gth-column activities of the Nazi agents in Iraq which led to the out. break' of hostilities between the British and the Raschid Ah clique was given by two Mexican artistes who have been in Iraq six months They said they could detect, no anti-British feeling among the people when they went up country. The majority of the people of Iraq looked at the coup d'etat of Raschid Ah with good deal of suspicion and uneasiness, "They could never expect the new regime would actually involve them inva war with the British, Baghdad was 0 hotbed of espionage and enemy propaganda. according to the artistes Reuter,

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