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that flying to Spain was impossible, because the Allies must by now have learned of our situation and would destroy their aircraft while we were in the air. We then explained to the Swiss authorities that air travel was impossible for us. They advised us to leave their country quickly, before the Allied authorities demanded that they hand us over. The late Emir Shakib Arslan and the late Abd al-Fattah Asal, the Egyptian ambassador in Bern, had learned of our arrival in Bern and of the Swiss authorities’ refusal to accept us. They made every effort to persuade them to accept us, but their strenuous and honorable efforts produced no positive result.

We then left by train for the border we had crossed by air, the German-Swiss border, and went to the city of Constance on the shore of the lake known by that name. There we found some Red Cross personnel who had come to learn about our health. We also found the French army occupying that area. We surrendered to the army personnel, and they took us to a camp near the lake, where we spent the night.

As for the list of thirty-two prohibited names that the Swiss authorities had mentioned in their conversation with us, it contained the names of a number of Nazi German leaders, including Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop, Himmler, and others, as well as Mussolini and Pavelić, president of Croatia, and others.

Before ending the account of our stay in Germany and our departure from it for Switzerland and then France, I think that, to complete the discussion, I should mention some events that occurred before we finally left Bad Gastein. My friend Dr. Farhan al-Jundi and I went to Berlin to supervise the construction of the grave of the late Dr. Mustafa al-Wakil, before we left Berlin for the last time. During this journey we stayed for ten days at the famous Adlon Hotel, where most members of the diplomatic corps stayed for protection from air raids, because it contained a deep shelter reached by descending about one hundred steps. Berlin was then the target of the heaviest air raids, most of which took place at night. We would descend into the shelter until the raid ended. Finally, a representative of the German Foreign Ministry came and warned all the political delegations, including us, that Berlin had to be left within two days because the Allied advance had approached Berlin and their armies had encircled it.

The grave of the late Dr. al-Wakil had been completed, and Berlin at that time, in late April 1945, had become a ruin in which the eye could scarcely find a standing building. We left it for Bad Gastein, and perhaps our car was the last car to leave Berlin before