'Mesopotamia. Preliminary Report on Causes of Unrest' [‎127r] (4/12)

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MESOPOTAMIA.
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON CAUSES OF UNREST
M ajoe N. N. E. BKAY, M.G.,
Special Intelligence Officer attached to Political Department, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .
\[ ote There is not sufficient space in the margin to show the references to documents and sources of
information on which the statements contained herein are based. These are shown separately in the
Appendix and referred to in the margin.
Various causes have been put forward as instrumental in producing the present difficult
.itnatkm to SoMtemia, their variety is contusing and contradictory, while as a whole they
we must seek elsewhere for the creative force of the movement and
the fanatical priest ta,ken separately or unpopular measure, is capable
combination. Similarly no particular defect m Goywrnent oru»P P n ^ i8
in Mesopotamia namely that the tribesmen ^ * vo iitical situation, they are a valuable
of no mean oMer. 4.^ r .« 11f rhnnt the Jezerat -al-Arab that we look for political class.
It is to the educated dasses throughout (especially of Arabian history) though they
or peace. These latter are prolific studen ^ 8 ^^^^Lerefrom. They take the keenest interest
•ire not always capable of deriving correct conclusio saturated with intrigues, provide
L and keep in constant touch with Se ^rit^u Sion larg^ numbers of them have had
a host of valuable speakers and plausihie^ 1 . considerable experience of actual
military training both under the T urk ^t n B U o an lmb NationaUst spirit, for the pan-Arab
warfare. Among them for years has gro ^ P^ the ^ broke out preparations were well
movement is not a thing of recent to r ' . ig them something very real. T Y
advanced for severance from used as instruments by an outside
therefore have all the nec ^ to ql J^ghiy realise this in order to was
but it is doubtful if t directions are bitterly hostile. Tm ha vino 1 been organized
aTto the future combined ^^h® outri^^nflne^ce^hTOUgh t^ j^g^ble.
r brusingC^^ they have been
al^'t o'rally^o^them" elwT a c ™ s ide, r ] ^| i e g^i^ly^organized and directed till they too became
The pro-Turkish elem . e ? ts bl e T p re8sm e in another direction. intensive propaganda
capable of exerciring ^Tchieved we shall see were identical, 8
support could they Pp: '
to attain their object.