tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post7275861753497806645..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Royal Profile: Prince Regent Abd al-IlahMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-35674269586300132492014-07-16T20:40:21.033-05:002014-07-16T20:40:21.033-05:00Nice to see positive comments about my friend. Nice to see positive comments about my friend. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-50178580419752879472011-01-31T18:32:30.701-06:002011-01-31T18:32:30.701-06:00Faisal II of Iraq gave a surprise birthday party i...Faisal II of Iraq gave a surprise birthday party in my honor on the Queen Mary in 1952. He came to the United States to go to a Dodgers' baseball game. He and his entourage, of course, traveled to all parts of the United States as guests of the State Department. With him were: his uncle (The Prince Regent), bodyguard (best friend), The Sheik of Baghdad, The Secretary of Iraq and the King's pilot.<br /><br />You can see my birtday cake and my presents on the table where we were seated. He gave me a brooch as his gift. The parties spent evenings together dancing.<br /><br />He invited me to his coronation.<br /><br />I will be writing up the story soon, but I already have the never-before published pictures on my Blog.<br /><br />My blog is:<br /><br />www.annegaillard.webs.com<br /><br />Send me some comments and send this info out to the viewers of your blog, please.Anne Gaillardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08642126699757600841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-74786778568012380362009-12-16T19:19:51.321-06:002009-12-16T19:19:51.321-06:00That seems like a slight stretch to me (I get wary...That seems like a slight stretch to me (I get wary of the blame game) but if so I would ask yet again what in the history of their relations made Britain and France think the US would put anyone's interest ahead of their own? He who drinks the king's wine must sing the king's song as they say -which is why it would be good idea if people stopped turning to the US for help; strings are always attached. That was a whole era of juvenile behavior by most all parties and usually it was the smaller nations that suffered most. Britain was rude to America so the US refused to support them at Suez. Bad guys won. When France called on America for help in Indochina they said only if Britain goes along but Britain, still angry over Suez, refused and the US did nothing. Bad guys won.<br /><br />I would give a word of warning though about speaking ill of the staff-clerk-in-chief Eisenhower. The Kansas bumpkin's popularity has been on the rise lately among libertarians and "paleoconservatives" precisely because he refused to get directly involved in foreign wars, cut the size of the military and uttered the first warnings about the "military industrial complex". I'm no big fan of his but you will likely find plenty who are.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-70955914305854369192009-12-16T17:56:41.926-06:002009-12-16T17:56:41.926-06:00Former British Cabinet Minister Lord Hailsham, in ...Former British Cabinet Minister Lord Hailsham, in his memoir A SPARROW'S FLIGHT, lamented the disgusting murders of the Iraqi king and his relatives in the 1958 revolution. He added - correctly in my view - that if it had not been for Eisenhower's crass betrayal of Britain, France, and the Hungarian patriots two years earlier (like many presidents Eisenhower subordinated every moral principle to the overriding imperative of reelection), the Baghdad gangsterism of 1958 would probably never have happened.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-5725067298996526782009-12-15T23:19:29.557-06:002009-12-15T23:19:29.557-06:00The revolt started on July 14? Strange coincidence...The revolt started on July 14? Strange coincidence.Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.com