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alone. Fot finding it at hoine, they travel in search of it;
and some of them are even being sent in search of it, at
Government expense, by the Gulf governments themselves. If we
were to make an educational map of the Persian Gulf, and to
show on it, by means of small arrows, the drift of these young
men away from the Gulf and towards higher education, we should
find some of the arrows pointing due East to India, and others
due est to Egypt. A good many would be pointing Forth-': est
to Syria and Beyrouth, a nd a whole sheaf of them IT.F.V. to Iraq*
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^ J. need not say much about Egypt or India, for Egypt is
considered by most Gulf parents and governments to be too'far '
away, and therefore too expensive, to send their young men to^
and fewer young men from the Gulf each year are looking east
wards for their education to India. As regards Syria and the
Lebanon, I heard Lord Lloyd say, about a year ago, that he was
satisfied that the American University of Beyrouth was one of the
ch± l f sources of anti-British propaganda in the Middle East.
As for Iraq, one has only to look at history, and to draw upon
personal experience.
/ Iraq ha3 for centuries been a centre of trouble. She
is still to -day a country of assassination, violence, treachery,
vengence, unrest, and corruption of all kinds. Her schools,
raore especially those of Bagdad, are hotbeds of cheating, lying,
immorality, insurrection, indiscipline, i norance, and in
efficiency. Everyone who has lived in Bagdad knows this.
hat is not so well known about Iraq is that education
ally, and therefore politically, she now has her eyes upon the
Vvhole of Arabia south of Basra, especially upon Kuwait, Bahrain,
the Hamdhramaut, the Yemen, and Saudi-Arabia. She perhaps does
not yet quite know what she wants to do in those places, or
hoi/, to do it, but she has at least realised the importance
of getting hold of the young men, and has made a very good begin
ning' by spreading her pan-Arab and anti-British propaganda,and
by instilling subversive ideas into the minds of all those
youths who visit her for educational purposes of their own free-