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42 ”the opinion of Sir Mark”: Nicolson precis for Balfour, July 11, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3044, f. 28693.

43 ”Hitherto the work”: Sykes to Drummond, July 20, 1917; MSP-68.

44 ”Lawrence's move”: Sykes to Clayton, July 22, 1917; MSP-69.

45 ”What have you promised”: Lawrence to Sykes, September 7, 1917; SADD Clayton Papers, 693/11/38.

46 ”It is in fact dead”: Clayton to Lawrence, September 20, 1917; SADD Clayton Papers, 693/11/912.

47 ”to all intents and”: Yale, Diary, September 8, 1917; YU Box 2, Folder 2.

48 ”This Jewish chemist”: Ibid., September 12, 1917; YU Box 2, Folder 2.

49 ”swept off the top”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 367.

50 ”towards some rough country”: Lawrence to Clayton, September 23, 1917; PRO-FO 882/4, f. 71.

51 ”seized my feet”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 369.

52 ”The conditions were”: Lawrence to Clayton, September 23, 1917; PRO-FO 882/4, f. 71.

53 ”I hope this sounds”: Lawrence to Stirling, September 25, 1917; UT, Folder 6, File 7.

54 ”I hope when the nightmare”: Lawrence to Leeds, September 24, 1917, in Garnett, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 238.

Chapter 15: To the Flame.

1 ”I only hope and trust”: As quoted by Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 455.

2 ”He listened very”: Aaronsohn to Alex Aaronsohn, October 1917; YU, Box 2, Folder 11.

3 ”does not wish to see”: Yale, Diary, September 25, 1917; YU Box 2, Folder 2.

4 ”Pascal,” he wrote: Aaronsohn to Alex Aaronsohn, October 1917; YU, Box 2, Folder 11.

5 In his more bitter: Clayton to Joyce, October 24, 1917; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 175; Joyce memo, undated; PRO-WO 158/634. See also Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, pp. 44748.

6 After the operation: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, pp. 38789.

7 ”almost indispensable”: Clayton to Wingate, November 13, 1916; SADD Wingate Papers, 143/2/190.

8 By then, the Managem: Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn, pp. 29899.

9 Sure enough, rumors soon began circulating: Sheffy, British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, p. 162; Engle, The Nili Spies, pp. 16768.

10 ”Today we don't want”: Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn, p. 303.

11 ”I want to be”: Engle, The Nili Spies, pp. 18687.

12 As a result: German warnings to the Turks over the treatment of Jews continued even after the NILI spy ring was broken, with German amba.s.sador Bernstorff counseling Talaat Pasha to ”not let a single case of Jewish espionage blow up into a full-fledged persecution of Jews.” Bernstorff to Foreign Ministry for Warburg, October 26, 1917; NARA T120, Roll 4334, Frame K179639.

13 Those spies had been: See Sheffy, British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, p. 162 nn. 77 and 78.

14 ”For those who had long”: Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn, p. 326.

15 By that afternoon: Engle, The Nili Spies, p. 202. Hunted by both Turkish authorities and Jewish vigilante squads, Joseph Lishansky finally ran out of luck on October 20, when he was captured outside Jerusalem. Along with Naaman Belkind he was convicted of treason, and in December 1917 both men were publicly hanged in Damascus.

16 For four days, she lingered: There is a wide divergence among published accounts on both the duration of the NILI raid on Zichron Yaakov, and on how long Sarah Aaronsohn survived after shooting herself. The latter question would seem to be resolved by the testimony of the doctor summoned after the shooting, who stated it was October 5, and by the two German nuns who attended Sarah, who stated she died on October 9.

17 ”We are doing our best”: Engle, The Nili Spies, p. 191.

18 ”He is not well”: Hogarth to Ormsby-Gore, October 26, 1917; PRO-FO 371/3054, f. 388.

19 ”I'm not going”: Lawrence to Leeds, September 24, 1917, in Garnett, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 238.

20 His comprehensive report: See various George Lloyd reports on Hejaz economy and political situation, Autumn 1916, in GLLD 9/8.

21 ”I think I could be”: Lloyd to Clayton, September 30, 1917; GLLD 9/13.

22 ”Lawrence is quite fit”: Lloyd to Clayton, October 20, 1917; GLLD 9/13.

23 ”He has a lion's heart”: Clayton to Lloyd, October 25, 1917; GLLD 9/10.

24 ”The view up the pa.s.s”: Lloyd, ”Diary of Journey with T.E.L. to El Jaffer,” October 24, 1917; GLLD 9/11.

25 Should Lawrence become: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, pp. 42123.

26 ”To them he is Lawrence”: Lloyd to Clayton, November 5, 1917; GLLD 9/10.

27 Lawrence was surely: Liddell Hart, Colonel Lawrence, pp. 19394.

28 If Bremond was wrong: Prfer to Oppenheim, November 3, 1914; NARA T137, Roll 23, Frame 213.

29 ”L not working”: Lloyd, notes from travels, undated but late October 1917; GLLD 9/10. In his authorized biography of Lawrence, Jeremy Wilson incorrectly transcribed a crucial point in George Lloyd's handwritten note, rendering Lloyd's original ”HMG” (an abbreviation for His Majesty's Government) as ”Allied.” As a result, his quote from Lloyd inaccurately reads, ”Lawrence not working for Allies but for Sherif.” Obviously, this error lends a very different meaning to that Lloyd intended-and to what Lawrence presumably said-but it is an error that has been repeated by many of those Lawrence biographers who have sought wherever possible to attribute Lawrence's acts of official disobedience as directed against Allied (i.e., French) actions rather than against the British government.

30 ”He would like me”: Lloyd, ”Diary of Journey with T.E.L. to El Jaffer,” October 28, 1917; GLLD 9/11.

31 ”otherwise” ... ”his independent activities”: Knabenshue to U.S. Secretary of State, October 23, 1917; NARA RG59, Box 1047, 111.70Y1/3.

32 Indeed, just days before: Ibid., November 4, 1917; NARA M353, Box 6, Frame 0827.

33 In defending his: Hoover (U.S. Consul, So Paulo, Brazil) to U.S. Secretary of State, August 21, 1917; NARA M367, Roll 217, doc.u.ment 763.72112.5321.

34 ”The information the British”: Yale, It Takes So Long, chapter 8, pp. 1819.