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Small Room in Clarges Street - War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 1942-1944 (Hardcover)
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Small Room in Clarges Street - War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 1942-1944 (Hardcover)
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During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of
people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret
lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the
Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked
audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and
Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's
post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their
inside knowledge of these countries: a British General who had
visited Russia's front-line held against the German invasion; an
RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German coup by Rashid
Ali, and the subsequent defence of the Habbaniya air base; a
Persian-speaking British diplomat stationed in Teheran; a Mancunian
of Lebanese descent who spoke frankly about Arab hopes and fears; a
Home Officer advisor sent to Moscow to inspect its fire-watching
arrangements; and a Polish countess forcibly transported to a
collective farm in Siberia, among others. Secrecy surrounded these
lectures many of the scripts were marked Secret' or Confidential';
they were not published in the Society's Journal, and the audience
was warned not to reveal the topics discussed outside the Clarges
Street premises. The discussions which followed the lectures were
held in the knowledge that frank views could be freely expressed,
and are included in this volume. Although so much has changed in
the international arena, these seventy-year old lectures, only
recently rediscovered in the Society's Archives, have a peculiar
poignancy and relevance in understanding today's unquiet Middle
East and how war-time events and strategies were to shape post-war
policy with regard to Arab nationalism and Arab unity.
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