“…Not all her visits to Arab women were gloomy. She enjoyed showing them how to dress in the European style, and once in a while she took it upon herslef to teach a child, such as a daughter of Musa Chalabi, to read English, or to train some youngsters to sing. Gathering them together in a quivering chorus, she pounded out the melody on an old piano. “open those mouths! Exaggerate the sounds1 Louder! Louder!”, she ordered. And standing like shaking leaves, the Arab children sang out, ” GOD SAVE THE KING.”
Gunshots in the north soon shattered the autumn air. Promises had been made to the Kurds that a republic would be established after the war, but with no formal treaty yet signed between Britain and Turkey, Kurdish activists were inciting their tribes to rebel…”