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lew. If I could stay alive for a few months and provoke the
tribes 5 ’ and P ?f nne tV CtS ° f sabot ^ e - retaliation against the
^o^nt^-attack^from^Indi^There wa’s^l'i bf, i T t e h ff t eCti -
tnbal elements ill-disposed to the Persians might be ind^ced^to
co-operate in the hope of eventual financial reward. nduced to
however, in the winter of 1942/1943, the British inflicted an
emphatic defeat on the Africa Corps at Alamein while the Russians
turned back the invading tide at Stalingrad. Russians
reached "u* b h e i C °h me V 63 '’ f ?. r S ° me months thilt th e Nazi flood had
cached its high-water mark and was really on the ebb - there was
always the threat of a German counter-offensive or a Russian
apse, but when this was plain I enguired whether I should
keep my organisation (if one can flatter it by such a name) in
When\h a9aU1St the pos „ s, ' bil1t y of a Russian occupation of Persia
When the answer came "No, the Russians are our allies" I pointed
ou that my continued presence in Khorasan was poi’ntless and
asked to be returned to Political duty. In due (or more
accurately over-due) course, my reguest was granted with a
?n Shariah f P ? h ,t,Ca1 0 ffl o er - Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , with h e ad-g ua rt er s
secretarv at ?he% WaS • a Sneer in the voice of th ® under
secretary at the Foreign Office in Delhi when he told me that I
:ore w e ron 9 g) Sent t0 th6 P ° St ’ bdt he ^^Idn't Tave blen
With my cloak and dagger, I shed my Kurdish and Persian servants
m vs e 5 ° f nr , m . 0t0 ^: c \ r ( wh 'ch I was told not to take) and found
myself, for the first time since landing in India eleven years
before^ without a single personal servant or hanger-on. It^ave
me a strange feeling of emancipation! ~ ^