The lease and the US (Priyotoma mon-e rekho)

For its part, the US Govt always wanted the lease to go the Prussians.

"It just seemed that the Prussians were less judgmental about the vaudeville culture of the US."

The lease family was not being accused of judging anyone, but the US Govt had hired a bunch of Iraqi Jews, they were called Sasoon and Kadoorie, they mostly lived in India and China and apparently wanted the lease out of European control.

"Iraq was where so many civilisations began, it had majestic charm, it had ancient history. Once you bring up Assyria, once you bring up Babylon, who'd remember the Crusades or the Knights? From Iraq, you could control every corner of the world."

Accordingly, the US Govt set up the US Fish Commission in 1871, the Prussians had informed the US Govt that Iraqi Jewish intelligence against the lease family and other European Jewry would be deposited with the US Fish Commission. 

No wonder an earlier allusion had stated that "the West Point Military Academy had been aware that information against the Jews of Europe was being gathered inside the US from the 1870s onward".

It would later prove useful, especially if the Tagores set up a girls' school, as they did in Asansol in the 1960s, where Antara studied.

Not too many people were willing to own up to the fact that they used the US Fish Commission's information, though it was widely used. The problem was, while Antara's former batchmates could easily go Assyrian-Baghdadi Jew against her, she couldn't invoke the Hindu Vedic civilisation to defend herself.

By the late 1990s, Antara had to accompany one of her college classmates to Nahoum's, a Baghdadi Jewish bakery in Kolkata, to buy fudge for Christmas. Antara's parents obviously liked it, she had carried some home for the vacation.

If you wanted to "fudge" Christmas and therefore Mykolaiv House using the Iraqi Jewish families, what were you doing sitting inside the US Navy's Mykolaiv House for the last 13 years?

The Prussians and the Kadoories couldn't build a magnificent House for you? Those who didn't know how to build a House would get the lease, the US Govt was so sure of itself?

November 27, 2025.