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...said to be in London.) But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. As a war correspondent in Spain, he was captured by the Fascists, sentenced to death and released when the British Government intervened; in Cairo he once edited a German-Arabic weekly; in Haifa he once hawked lemonade in the streets. In 1939 he published a historical novel, The Gladiators, about the Spartacus revolt. From Darkness at Noon, it is obvious that he also knows Russia and the deep places of the human mind...
When Super-Nationalist Seyid Rashid El-Gailani this month took the Iraqi Premiership by coup d'état (TIME, April 21), Britain's great fear was that the new Government would let Axis fifth columnists tamper with the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, through which flows part of Britain's oil. If El-Gailani had had any such ideas, the British moved too fast for him. Into Basra harbor last week unexpectedly steamed a British transport and unloaded British Imperial troops, probably from East Africa...
...that she had trouble in Paradise as well. By week's end this month's uprising in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden, showed no signs of normal simmering down, seemed instead a nasty threat to the carotid artery of the British Empire, the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline...
...command was said to be General Rino Corso Fougier. Named to be active squadron leader was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, a flier of proved ability with a reputation for courage. (He is credited with leading long-range raids on Haifa and, last fortnight, on the Bahrein Islands.) The Corso-Muti squadron was reported attached to the German air fleet commanded by Nazi General Albert Kesselring-but still no Italian planes or pilots were reported over Great Britain by R. A. F., which awaited them with cold-steel curiosity...
With its own private Drang Nach Osten (Drive to the East) already pushed from Ethiopia through British Somaliland, hammering at the island of Perim in the Red Sea and the port of Haifa on the Mediterranean, Italy took a running jump last week, landed at the far edge of the Middle East. Out across the sands of Arabia to the Persian Gulf it sent a squadron of heavy bombers, driving at the oil depots and refineries of the Bahrein Archipelago...