ABSTRACT
Talal bin Abdallah's eldest son and heir apparent, the amir Talal is occasionally mentioned in intelligence reports as willing to conspire against the British overlordship—the German response being total disregard. Abdallah himself never appears as anything but a British stooge destined to disappear when Germany won the war. The confidant returned without having been able even to establish substantive contact with the German embassy, let alone with Ambassador von Papen: The Germans did not rate Abdallah worthy of any sort of negotiation. Thereupon Abdallah returned to his salt, willy-nilly at first and, as his fit of dejection passed, whole-heartedly soon after. Abdallah's character certainly poses no difficulty in this matter, nor does the logic of the situation as seen from Abdallah's viewpoint.
