الملف ٣٠١\١٩٢١ "بلاد الرافدين: تقارير استخباراتية" [و‎‎٩‎٦] (٥٨٦/٢٠٢)

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M-ukmrrif. After dinner, visitors of all classes came to see H.H.
usual smiling look and noble manners.
The Iraq leaders who came with him, viz :
Yusuf al Suwaidi.
Saiyid Muhammad Sadr al Din.
Saiyid Nur and his son.
•saiyid Hadi Muqotar and his two -sons.
‘Ali al Bazirqan.
Saiyid ‘ Alwan.
Haji Sallal and his brother Haji Mahdi.
ShaMan al Jabar.
All are guests of Basrah notables.
He welcomes all with his
Saturday night, 25th June, 1921.
Prom our Special Representative.
Description of the Splendid Reception accorded to H.H. Amir Faisal
at Basrah.
On Friday at 8.30 a.m. the Amir began to receive the delegations of Ashraf, notables and
all other classes. He welcomed all with his usual smiling look. H.H. thanked the Baghdad
delegation for the trouble they undertook for his reception. Kadhim al Dujaili delivered a
speech saying that the rulership (Mulukinah) of ‘Iraq tits no one but H.H. because his family
is well-known as having served the Arabs from olden days; whereupon His Highness replied:—
“ I thank you all for the trouble you have taken in coming and ask God to guide us to the
welfare of the country. If our family have served the Arab nation, they were but performing
their duty towards it. We have neither to-day a master and a subject nor a ruler and a ruled, but
the master of all is God. I am but the humblest servant of the nation. May God realize our
hope and unite our cause for the welfare of the country. ’ ’
At the conclusion, all present clapped and shouted ‘ ‘ Long live H.H. Amir Faisal—Long live
H.I.H. King Faisal—Long live the only King.”
Many poems were read out which will be sent by mail.
Nuri Pasha received the following telegram from Basrah:—
Basrah, 24th June, 1921.
This morning H.H. received the Ashraf, Shaikhs and delegations representing all com
munities between 8 and 10 a.m. H.H. reciprocated expressions of welcome and good hopes.
The house was full of notables applauding the speeches and the future King of the country.
The country is making festival.— (Signed) Ahmad.
Basrah Makes Festival.
The people of Basrah gave a tea party to H.H. the Amir at 4 on Friday. Speeches were
delivered by Muhammad Zaki, the advocate, ‘Abdul Kadhim al Shamkhani of Basrah and Ata
Amin and Kadhim Dujaili and ‘Abdul Rahman Khidr of Baghdad. The Armenians were
represented by Mahran Mahraniyan.
The Amir spoke as follows:—
Before all I wish to express my exceeding thanks for the good welcome I have received, but
this is not wonderful, for the ‘Iraqis are well-known for their good manners, and good comes
from a good man. I wish to speak about what the orators said of me and my family. National
m0 ved me and moved all who rose with me: this also moved our fathers and grandfathers ,
to establish their glory and gave the Arab nation a high position. All that my father, my
brothers and I have done is a duty undeserving of thanks. I and my family are responsible
for this principle more than any other individual because this rising and this nation was guided
by the order of God and of our ancestor the Prophet. We therefore have double the duty of
others. I beg the nation not to let me hear more thanks; I serve in the name of God and need
no thanks. My brothers, I am to-day fortunate in standing before you; I thank God for it and
for seeing you merely as an individual, as Faisal (shouts of Long live Faisal). I ask you to
do one thing, to be united and support one another for you have no other intention but the
service of this holy country. If this is our principle we are sure to succeed. I have no per
sonal ambition, by God, but I work desiring only to serve this country for the sake of pleasing
Go!d. I swear by the honour of the tombs of my ancestors that I shall be the first to swear
fealty to the man whom the nation shall choose. If you wish to appoint a person I advise you
to be sincere in utterance and if one of you say something let him abide by it. For suspicion
and doubt are the root of misfortune. If the nation agrees on a person I will be the first to
performed, but the future is hidden. We depend on the heart of the nation and the awakening
acclaim liim. We served in war and in Government, and no doubt this was our duty which we