Quotation from Winston Churchill “British civil administration should have succeeded in such a short time in alienating the whole country” — Aug. 31 1920
Speaking of the unpopularity of the "mandate" attributed to the Europeans by the League, in a letter (not sent) to Lloyd George.
" It is an extraordinary thing that the British civil administration should have succeeded in such a short time in alienating the whole country [Iraq] to such an extent that the Arabs have laid aside the blood feuds they have nursed for centuries and that the Sunni and Shia tribes are working together. "
Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Companion part 2
: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1978, p. 1199.
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