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35 Their reports noted: See field reports of Herbert Garland, May 1917; PRO-FO 686/6.

36 ”It is somewhat difficult”: Dawnay, ”Notes on Faisal's Proposed Advance Northward,” May 29, 1917; PRO-WO 158/606, f. 43A.

37 By the time Clayton penned: Clayton to Director of Military Intelligence (London), July 5, 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 1.

38 ”The enemy had never”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 310.

Chapter 14: Hubris.

1 ”Do not try to do”: Lawrence, Twenty-Seven Articles, August 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 9397.

2 ”nothing has occurred”: Clayton to Military Intelligence Director (London), July 11, 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 1823.

3 Ironically, some of: Lawrence's account of his return to Cairo and his first meeting with Allenby is to be found in Seven Pillars, book 5, chapters 55 and 56, pp. 31722.

4 ”considerably enhanced”: Wingate to Robertson, July 14, 1917; PRO-WO 374/41077.

5 On the opposite side: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 422.

6 ”there is little hope”: Lawrence to Clayton, July 10, 1917; PRO-FO 882/16, f. 249.

7 To make use of: Allenby to Robertson, July 16, 1917; PRO-WO 158/634, f. 4A.

8 ”The advantages offered”: Allenby to Robertson, July 19, 1917; PRO-WO 158/634, f.10A.

9 ”A slave brought up”: Lawrence, Twenty-Seven Articles, August 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 9397.

10 ”are no good”: Aaronsohn, Diary, July 1, 1917; ZY.

11 ”I no longer had”: Ibid., July 2, 1917.

12 his local ”representative”: Sykes to Graham, May 5, 1917; MSP-41a.

13 So vague had his: Clayton to Sykes, June 22, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3058, f. 156.

14 This the German government: Cecil to Hardinge, June 13, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3058, f. 145.

15 ”There can be no doubt”: Cecil to Hardinge, June 13, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3058, f. 14648.

16 ”very much inclined”: Aaronsohn, Diary, July 17, 1917; ZY.

17 ”I gather”: Wingate to Graham, July 23, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3083, f. 55.

18 In his discussions with Generals: As Clayton wrote to Sykes after interviewing Lawrence in Cairo, ”Faisal's name is one to conjure with.... Already he is accepted in practically all of the [Syrian] districts through which Lawrence pa.s.sed.” Clayton, July 22, 1917; PRO-FO 882/16, f. 145.

19 ”Aqaba had been taken”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 323.

20 As Lawrence explained: Wilson to Clayton, July 29, 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 48.

21 A surprised Wilson: Newcombe quickly tired of his rearguard duties and transferred back to Cairo. He was captured by the Turks in early November 1917 during the EEF offensive in southern Palestine.

22 ”The main points”: Lawrence, ”Report on meeting King Hussein,” July 30, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3054, f. 37273.

23 While he was still in Jeddah: Macindoe for Clayton to Military Intelligence Director, July 28, 1917; PRO-WO 141/668, p. 5.

24 ”They were anxious”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 326.

25 ”absolutely satisfactory”: Wilson to Arab Bureau (Cairo), August 6, 1917; PRO-WO 158/634, f. 25A.

26 ”Since [British] Egypt kept”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 327.

27 This Yale did: Yale, ”Palestine-Syrian Situation,” with addendum, July 10, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3050.

28 ”with view to subsequent”: Foreign Office to Spring-Rice, July 25, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3057.

29 ”he was positively”: Yardley, American Black Chamber, p. 172.

30 ”the collection and examination”: Department of State, ”History of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security of the United States Department of State,” 2011. anization/176705.pdf.

31 ”[Yale] is to keep us informed”: Harrison to Gunther (American emba.s.sy, London), August 30, 1917; NARA RG59, Box 1047.

32 ”I lacked a historical”: Yale, It Takes So Long, chapter 8, pp. 1011.

33 ”We are glad”: Aaronsohn, ”The Jewish Colonies,” Arab Bulletin no. 64 (September 27, 1917): 38991.

34 ”It was an interview”: Aaronsohn, Diary, August 12, 1917; ZY.

35 ”It might help matters”: Wingate to Balfour, August 20, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3053, f. 384.

36 stop her ”activities”: Engle, The Nili Spies, pp. 15254.

37 Their cavalier manner: The cavalier att.i.tude of the British toward the well-being of their intelligence a.s.sets was amply reflected in Hard Lying, the memoir of the Managem captain, Lewen Weldon. As Weldon noted on p. 195, ”We were on the whole extraordinarily lucky with our 'agents.' I don't think more than seven were actually captured. Six of these were hanged and one had his head cut off.”

38 ”I don't think that any”: Lawrence to Clayton, August 27, 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 8892.

39 ”colonialism is madness”: Sykes to Clayton, July 22, 1917; MSP-69.

40 ”the Anglo-French-Arab”: Sykes memorandum, ”On Mr. Nicholson's [sic] Note Regarding Our Commitments,” July 18, 1917; MSP-66.

41 Over time, a growing consensus: Curzon to Hardinge, August 23, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3044, f. 299.

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