The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-12
BY William
Ferguson Q

prised
Some time ago, a dervish put
teh same question to the hyklmoot
ameez. And he replied: Would
you call the lion to chase away
the tiger or the tiger to chase
away the lion?'
Then - what 2"
LET the lion and the tiger kill
one another or, at least, maui and
wound and bleed one another so
badly, that for generations to
some. they will both be too weak
to enslave honest Moslems. We
the Arab smiled thinly, shall help
matters along
How can We-since the master
does not want us to make WARP"
He does want us to make war
But you said :"
mot war either for or against
the axis. Nor war as the Euro.
peans fight 1t, with tanks and air.
planes and massed battalion$
How can we, not having the
weapons and there not being
enough Of us? It will be a diff.
ferent kind of war altogether
War Of the snakes fangs and thu
leopard's claws. War against ali
foreigners - for are they not all
our enemies? And killing the few,
not the many. Killing picked in
dividuals.''
political assassinations?"
Call it that. I prefer to call II
executions of men justly con-
demned to death. On a certain
day - on the same day, so that the
fear Of it will strike simultane-
ously - here and there, throughout
the land, the leaders among the
oppressors, generals and COVER
nors, judges and consuls and
prominent merchants, FRENCH,
American, British, German, Ital-
Ian. will die. They will die by
steel or bomb, by poison or bull
let. Fate will crush them. Fate
like blind camel, coming out Of
the dark, with no warning, no
jingling of bells" . ..-.
He raised both his arms; looked
at the doomed ceiling with his
sightless eyes.
Allah" he exclaimed, lis in
deed Most Great! He is the
Holder of the Scales Of Justice
with the Strength of His Hands,"
Lincoln shuddered. He felt some
thing like trembling, unclean ella
ton run down his spine.
when will this day be?'' he
asked.
VERY soon. The hykmoot ameez
will decide. He trusts neither let
tiers brought by messengers nor
the talk Of the drums. That's why,
from all over the land, the chosen
are hurrying to him now. You
will go as the emissary of the Bi
Hassanyieh and return with word
of the glorious date, For here,
too are foreigners whom Fate
must strike :. ="
And I bet" thought Lincoln
''I'm one of them"
He felt a little ashamed of him
self. The other, years ago. had
been his friend. And here, to-
night, he was acting the spy,
sucking the man dry of vital, per-
ilous information.
Whom he inquired, would
you have sent If Fosiha had not
known where was? For I sup
pose there are others left here Of
the brotherhood"
"A few. But all of them crude
peasants and cameleers. Not to be
entrusted with grave mission.
Thus" with superb simplicity. Il
prayed to Allah - and He listened
to me-and sent you" p
He was silent.
Can you imagine the outcry OF
horror, of fear, on the day we
striker" he went on triumphantly.
Can you imagine the confusion -
in the midst of war? And what
can the foreigners do? Find the
murderers? Hang them? What OF
1t? Other martyrs will carry on
the blessed, blessed work" y
Lincoln bit his lips. q
Thank God that he had found
out about 1t in time!
Ito Re Continuedt