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There have been of late no fresh developments in the situation of the House of Baghdad. The case, which is now before the court of First Instance, has been postponed for some time and we still await anxiously the decision of the court. Any hope of an immediate and final solution of this intricate problem seems for the present remote. In the event of our success the case may still be referred by our powerful opponents to the Court of Appeal -- the highest in the land -- and should its decision be in our favor the government may at any time -- as it does not seem unlikely -- decide, by retaining the keys in its custody, to postpone indefinitely the execution of such a verdict in order to allay the fierce hostility of the clerical element as well as the Shi'ite population of Iraq
(76:2)
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