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...Government which withdrew the British mandate over Irak last year (TIME, Oct. 17), entertained King Feisal in London during the past June season. When King Feisal was in London fullest royal honors were paid to the "new nationhood" of Irak by Christian King George V who feted his royal Mohammedan guest at Buckingham Palace. With Assyrians being massacred last week Britain was obviously bound to try to save as many of them as possible. Unfortunately the British Minister to Irak, Sir Francis Humphrys, was on vacation in Norway last week, had to be recalled to London and then despatched post...
...obtaining arms. Not long ago Yaku, after treating with agents of the Irak Government, agreed to return and give up his arms. Instead he swooped with wolflike treachery upon a small Irak force sent to accept his surrender, killed 20 Iraki, wounded 45. Worse than treachery, according to the Mohammedan point of view, was "the frightful mutilation by the Assyrians of our dead...
...troops and started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1,000 Assyrians, whereas the Assyrian minority in Irak numbers 40,000, mostly peaceful. In a few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter 600 Assyrian villagers were put to the sword, according to British investigators. In Bagdad suave Irak Premier Rashid Ali Beg called the British reports "exaggerated," partially confirmed them when he insisted, "No Assyrian old men or children have been killed. No Assyrian women have been attacked...
...Shimun, who was deported last week with his father and brother. At once the British Government offered these exiles asylum on the Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F. plane and demanded that King Feisal stay in Bagdad to punish the guilty - whether Christian or Mohammedan. To the Irak Legation in London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety. Inform the British Government...
...Next day 10,000 Hungarian Boy Scouts and their 20,000 Scout guests showed the way to hold a Jamboree. ("Why call Scout get-togethers Jamborees?" reporters asked B.P. years ago. His answer: "Why not?") Scout flags of all nations represented were blessed by Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Mohammedan dignitaries. In the reviewing stand appeared Sweden's chief scout and presumptive future king, Prince Gustav Adolf, 27, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, 50. Then, as Scouts set up a mighty cheer, out on two prancing chargers rode B.P. and His Serene Highness Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary...