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King for a day when he was 16.
He thereupon bought every gramophone record in Bagdad and ordered
five cartloads of fresh clover for his pony. He will be at the mercy of
pro-British and anti-British advisers with whom his tactful father
neatly balanced his Court. Prince Ali at once proposed himself as
Ghazi's chief adviser, declaring: "I shall be as a father to the
new King, whose name is Ghazi ibn Feisal, which means Victorious Son of
Feisal." Certainly as an uncle to Ghazi will be British Ambassador
Sir Francis Humphrys. As Feisal's body was sped home by sea on a
British destroyer,* his old War Comrade Lord Allenby pronounced his
obituary for the Empire: "He was a good soldier, an able
politician and—what many politicians are not—honest with it. His
sense of duty was great, and I presume he sacrificed himself to his
country. A King has to do that sort of thing."
*Swiss officials made the extraordinary blunder of placing
a huge silver cross in Mohammedan Feisal's funeral railroad car.
