IRAK: Traitor

Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open.

Ripped at last, the envelope gave up this piteous sentence: "I feel myself without help and that my countrymen regard me as a traitor to Irak and a servant of the British."

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