Recalling the early days of Febru-Mr. Eden said: "What then seemed to the Government to be. the German plan for an early spring campaign was to overrun the Balkans, to establish themselves in Bul-gona and thereby to encircle Yugo-to subjugate Greece. to, immobilize Turkey and from that posi tion. without firing a single shot to deliver their main blow from secure tasses at our position in the Eastern Mediterranean.
"There was no doubt a subsidiary purpose in this plan, to bring help to (Continued on page 7)
Criticizing British policy in Iraq. "The Times" says that there were too frequent changes in our Embassy there with tffree Ambassadors and one acting Ambassador in" the last four years.
"It is doubtful if it. is quite logical to, stress the unconstitutional methods employed by Rashid Ah to seize power, The Iraqis have had little experience of constitutional government," The Times" concludes, "But. these. things are of- the. past; at, the moment all that. matters is to meet the new incident with speech and determination."
Mail" similarly asks; "Have. the "British representative in Iraq been taken by surprise? Has our. Intelligence failed to—report what has been going on?—If so, why?
"This ig no new, thing. I, has happened in half-a-dozen. countries, but here is a country which has been under Britain's wing since the last war. Yet German influence has been, allowed to penetrate to an alarming extent."
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