The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (74 page)

  7.
 “The time has come …” Lord Milner, memorandum, November 12, 1917, ibid.

  8.
 “I ask how far …” Curzon of Keddleston, “Peace Negotiations with Turkey,” November 16, 1917, NA, WO800/214.

  9.
 “We are pledged …” Sykes to Hankey, November 14, 1917, Hull University, Sykes Papers, DDSY/2/4/161.

10.
 Unlike Waugh … Balfour to Lord Beaverbrook, August 9, 1918, NA, WO800/206.

11.
 “This is the most favorable …” Granville to Balfour, December 15, 1918, NA, FO371/3057; Waugh to Granville, December 4, 1918; Heathcote-Smith, memorandum on two conversations with Rahmi Bey, December 3, 1918, ibid.

12.
 “the fact that he is …” The two Turks were Chevky Bey and Begjet Wahby. Rumbold to Balfour, January 7, 1918, NA, WO800/206.

13.
 “Agent, who is believed …” Rumbold to Foreign Office, December 28, 1917, OUNBL, Rumbold Papers, box 23.

14.
 Lord Newton, however … Newton to Rumbold, January 5, 1918, ibid.

15.
 Amazingly, Horace … Palmer,
Victory in 1918
, 148–49.

16.
 “to include Palestine …” Smuts to Rumbold, December 19, 1917, OUNBL, Rumbold Papers, box 23.

17.
 “I trust that …” Minutes by various officials, December 15, 1917, NA, FO371/3057.

18.
 a wire from Balfour … I have found no copy of this cable, but Balfour refers to it twice in correspondence (see below).

19.
 “sent at the end …” Rumbold to Parodi, March 21, 1918, OUNBL, Rumbold Papers, box 23.

20.
 “We thought …” Balfour to Beaverbrook, August 9, 1918, NA, WO800/206.

21.
 
“my Government will …” Rumbold to Parodi, February 6, 1918, OUNBL, Rumbold Papers, box 23.

22.
 “Abdul Kerim will …” Zaharoff to Caillard, November 18, 1917, NA, Caillard Papers, file 8.

23.
 Only two days … Zaharoff to Caillard, October 15, 1917, ibid.

24.
 The two men met … W. H. Fisher to Caillard, November 6, 1917, ibid.

25.
 “Egyptian conditions” … Owen, “Influence of Cromer’s Indian Experience,” 109–39; Al-Sayyd-Marsotm, “The British Occupation of Egypt from 1882,” in Porter, ed.,
Oxford History of the British Empire
, 3:651–64.

26.
 “using a very coarse …” Zaharoff to Caillard, November 27, 1917, NA, Caillard Papers, file 7.

27.
 “If the previous …” Zaharoff to Caillard, December 4, 1917, ibid.

28.
 “‘personal opinion’” … Zaharoff to Caillard, December 7, 1917, ibid.

29.
 “I did not go one …” Zaharoff to Caillard, December 15, 1917, House of Lords Record Office, Lloyd George Papers, Zaharoff file.

30.
 “Send me …” Ibid.

31.
 “We should be …” Davies to Caillard, January 21, 1918, ibid.

32.
 “It is agreed …” “Instructions of January 9, 1918,” ibid.

33.
 “You did not mention …” Caillard to Lloyd George, January 12, 1918, ibid.

34.
 “Please explain …” Caillard to Zaharoff, January 16, 1918, ibid.

35.
 “We were four days …” Zaharoff to Caillard, January 29, 1918, ibid. 358 “claiming that all …” Zaharoff to Caillard, August 21, 1918, ibid.

  1.
 “serious concern not …” Ronald Graham, minute, November 22, 1917, NA, FO371/3057.

  2.
 “King seemed quite …” Quoted in Stein,
Balfour Declaration
, 633.

  3.
 “I know that the Arabs …” Sykes to Feisal, March 3, 1918, NA, FO882/3, Arab Bureau.

  4.
 “I do not, and never did …” Feisal to Sykes, July 18, 1917, NA, FO800/221.

  5.
 He did not look … Yale Report no. 10, December 31, 1917, Oxford University, St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Yale Papers.

  6.
 “the ambitions and …” Yale Report no. 3, November 12, 1917, ibid.

  7.
 “The soul of their Prophet …” Amir Ali to Lord Hardinge, November 10, 1917, NA, FO371/3053.

  8.
 “the Zionists were very …” Yale Report no. 9, December 26, 1917, Oxford University, St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Yale Papers.

  9.
 “I strongly urge …” Islamic Society Resolutions, November 5, 1917, NA, FO371/3053.

10.
 Britain had a mandate … Macmillan,
Peacemakers
, 411.

11.
 “In no single theatre …” Quoted in Porter,
Lion’s Share
, 252.

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Sir Gilbert Clayton Papers

Sir Reginald Wingate Papers

David Lloyd George Papers

Herbert Samuel Papers

Mark Sykes Papers

Edmund Allenby Papers

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Sir Wyndham Deedes Papers

Felix Frankfurter Papers

David Hogarth Papers

Sir Henry McMahon Papers

Herbert Samuel Papers

Sir Mark Sykes Papers

William Yale Papers

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