transcriber

According to the transcriber, Kerry “asserted that [Qatar's prime minister] was preaching to the converted.”

Transcriber's note: Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies, mainly quotes that had not been closed, have been harmonized.

On some reading devices, inline stage directions are set off from the text by parentheses added by the transcriber.

Errors of the first transcriber are corrected by a later hand, and noticed in the margin or between the lines.

The transcriber created the cover image, and hereby releases it to the public domain.

Transcriber's Notes: No corrections of typographical or other errors have been made to this text.