In any case, he told Sir John Masterman, an intelligence chief, his whole purpose in pretending to collaborate with the Germans was to get to Britain to fight forkingandcountry.
For the most part, tribal demonstrators in Salt and elsewhere are as keen to show their support forkingandcountry as they are to shout "Down, down USA" and "Long live Saddam Hussein".
Correspondents say King Abdullah has been cautiously pressing for political reforms, but in a country where conservative clerics and some members of the royal family resist change, liberalisation has been very gradual.
Just two days after Saudi King Abdullah announced that women in his country will be allowed to vote and run for some political offices, a Saudi court sentenced a woman in Jeddah Tuesday to 10 lashes as a punishment for driving.
Parliament's failure to approve the amendment is likely to be a disappointment for Jordan's King Abdullah, who is keen to present his country to the outside world as a pioneering model for reform and a beacon of moderate Islam.