The Daily News' Correspondent at St. Petersburg declares that he
has reason to know that Abdul Rahman has been acting in concert with Ayoub Khan. We should think it extremely likely that so long as either leader thought he could get any- thing by negotiating with the other, he negotiated. But the moment their interests became divided, we have little less doubt that the concert ceased. Nobody ever sup- posed that Abdul Rahman took the British side from pure love of the British. We selected him, we sup- pose, because we thought him the more capable and influential man of the two, and not because he was more likely to take our side for the sake of abstract principle. That he may have been ready to league himself with Ayoub at the time when he thought it his only chance for recovering power in Afghanistan, is no reason for thinking that the league will- continue when it woull become the greatest of perils to his. own chance.
