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Winston Churchill, as colonial secretary of Palestine, writing to Sir Hugh Trenchard, on 19 February, 1920

by anthony bougatsas on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:44 PM BST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Would it be possible for Trenchard to take control of Iraq? This would entail:

"the provision of some kind of asphyxiating bombs calculated to cause disablement of some kind but not death...for use in preliminary operations against turbulent tribes."

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