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21 Incredibly, this information: Bremond received his first intimation of this via a cable from Field Marshal Joffre on November 27, 1916, as reproduced in Bremond, Le Hedjaz dans la Guerre Mondiale, p. 97.

22 ”Very few Turkish”: Storrs, Memoirs, p. 204.

23 ”Is fond of riding”: Lawrence, The Sherifs, October 27, 1916; PRO-FO 882/5, f. 40.

24 ”His manner was dignified”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 76.

25 ”if Faisal should”: Ibid., p. 77.

26 ”Each hill and valley”: Ibid., p. 83.

27 To Lawrence, it underscored: Lawrence made oblique reference to these previously unknown water sources in his contemporaneous reports, ”Feisal's Operations,” October 30, 1916, and ”Military Notes,” November 3, 1916; PRO-FO 882/5, f. 478, and f. 63.

Chapter 9: The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker.

1 ”[Faisal] is hot tempered”: Lawrence, The Sherifs, October 27, 1916; PRO-FO 882/5, f. 41.

2 By arguing for this: Wilson, Notes on the Military Situation in the Hedjaz, September 11, 1916; PRO-FO 882/4, f. 329.

3 ”a man who can't stand the racket”: Minutes of Conference held at Commander-in-Chief's Residence, Ismailia, September 12, 1916; PRO-FO 882/4, f. 333.

4 Noticing Lawrence had: Boyle, My Naval Life, p. 99.

5 ”Red-haired men”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 143.

6 Wingate fired off: Wingate to Foreign Office, November 2, 1916; PRO-WO 158/603.

7 As for just what size: Arabian Report no. 16 (November 2, 1916); PRO-CAB 17/177, p. 2. Also, Wilson to Arab Bureau, November 1, 1916; PRO-WO 158/603, f. 49A.

8 ”proves that Rabegh”: Parker to Arab Bureau, November 2, 1916; PRO-WO 158/603, f. 17b.

9 ”[Faisal] talks a lot”: Bremond report, January 2, 1917, as quoted by Tanenbaum, France and the Arab Middle East, p. 19.

10 ”full of German stuff”: Aaronsohn, Diary, October 25, 1916; ZY.

11 That effort badly backfired: Katz, The Aaronsohn Saga, p. 6.

12 ”The game is in play”: Aaronsohn, Diary, October 25, 1916; ZY.

13 In Copenhagen, he: Engle, The Nili Spies, p. 77.

14 ”n.o.body can say”: Aaronsohn ”confession” to Julius Mack, October 9, 1916, pp. 12 13; ZY.

15 ”If I were with the British”: Thomson, My Experiences at Scotland Yard, pp. 22526, and The Scene Changes, pp. 38788.

16 ”Here, I had the good”: Aaronsohn to Alex and Rivka Aaronsohn, October 28, 1916; ZY.

17 ”It was not easy”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 57.

18 ”moral and material”: Wingate to Clayton, November 7, 1916; PRO-WO 158/603, f. 79A.

19 ”they cannot provide”: French Emba.s.sy (London) to Foreign Office, November 8, 1916, as quoted by Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 325.

20 The sirdar further: Wingate to Robertson, November 12, 1916, as repeated by Wingate to Murray, November 18, 1916; PRO-WO 158/627, f. 10A, p. 4.

21 ”They are our very good”: Lawrence, Report, November 17, 1916; PRO-WO 106/1511, f. 3436.

22 ”They say, 'Above' ”: Ibid.

23 In a fit of pique: Parker to Wingate, July 6, 1916; SADD Wingate Papers, W/138/3/69.

24 ”There is no good”: Minutes of Conference held at Commander-in-Chief's Residence, Ismailia, September 12, 1916; PRO-FO 882/4, f. 333.

25 ”I was astonished”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 112.

26 ”I have just seen”: Murray to Wingate, November 17, 1916; PRO-WO 158/627, f. 7A.

27 ”said to have an intimate”: Robertson, The Occupation of El Arish, November 19, 1916; PRO-WO 106/1511, f. 34.

28 ”Captain Lawrence's statement”: Sykes, Appreciation of Arabian Report, No. XVIII, November 20, 1916; PRO-CAB 17/177.

29 ”whom I knew to be”: Cited by Wilson, Lawrence, pp. 32728.

30 ”They began to be”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 112.

31 ”there is apparently lack”: Robertson to Murray, November 22, 1916; PRO-WO 158/604, f. 75A.

32 ”I have always taken”: Murray to Robertson, November 23, 1916; PRO-WO 158/604, f. 76A.

33 ”If I brooded continually”: Aaronsohn, Diary, November 11, 1916; ZY.

34 ”Of course we do not”: W.T.I.D., Report of Inhabitant of Athlit, November 2, 1916; PRO-FO 371/2783.

35 ”I was probably too”: Aaronsohn, Diary, November 24, 1916; ZY.

36 In March 1915: Schneer, The Balfour Declaration, pp. 13545.

37 ”Arab Christians and Moslems alike”: Sykes to Buchanan, March 14, 1916; PRO-FO 371/2767, File 938.

38 ”I regret complicated”: Ibid.

39 ”obliterate from his”: Edward Grey notes on Sykes's cable to Buchanan, March 15, 1916; PRO-FO 371/2767, File 938.

40 ”If Rabbi Gaster”: Adelson, Mark Sykes, p. 213.