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38 ”It must be abundantly”: Weizmann to Brandeis, January 14, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3394, f. 423.

39 ”now impossible”: British government White Paper, ”Notes on Zionism,” Part 2. Communications of the Zionist Organization II, JanuaryMarch 1918; April 19, 1918, p. 11; PRO-FO 371/4171, f. 99.

40 ”Affairs are in rather”: Lawrence to Clayton, January 22, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 25153.

41 ”I began to increase”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 462.

42 ”Everybody thought”: Lawrence to Clayton, January 26, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 25458.

43 It had come at a cost: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 482.

Chapter 17: Solitary Pursuits.

1 ”It might be fraud”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 503.

2 ”These interests crossed”: William Yale's personal account of his intelligence work in Cairo in 191718 is drawn from Yale, It Takes So Long, chapter 8.

3 ”On the strength of what”: Yale to Harrison, December 24, 1917; YU, Box 2, Folder 12.

4 ”the truth seems”: Yale to Harrison, November 12, 1917; YU, Box 2, Folder 6.

5 ”in a few words suggests”: Yale to Harrison, February 25, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 19.

6 ”a young British officer”: Yale to Harrison, November 4, 1917; YU, Box 2, Folder 5.

7 Without those funds: Lawrence to Clayton, January 22, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 25152.

8 ”hummed and hawed”: Lawrence to Clayton, February 12, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 267.

9 ”spend what was necessary”: Lawrence's account of his confrontation with Zeid in Tafileh and his subsequent actions is drawn from Seven Pillars, book 7, chapter 90, pp. 499502.

10 ”I am getting shy”: Lawrence to Clayton, February 12, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 268.

11 In recent months: Lawrence, The Home Letters, p. 341.

12 ”To be charged against”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 502.

13 ”There was no escape”: Ibid., p. 503.

14 ”I'm to go back”: Lawrence, The Home Letters, p. 348.

15 ”Major Lawrence's opinions”: Yale to Harrison, March 11, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 21.

16 Instead, he had found a king: David Hogarth, ”Report on Mission to Jeddah,” January 15, 1918; PRO-FO 882/13 f. 3540.

17 ”[Hussein] refers to”: Wingate to Foreign Office, February 19, 1918; PRO-FO 3713380, f. 473.

18 In late January, he had penned: Lawrence, ”Syrian Cross Currents,” Arab Bulletin Supplementary Papers, February 1, 1918; PRO-FO 882/14.

19 ”I have urged Lawrence”: Clayton to Sykes, February 4, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3398.

20 ”As for the Jews”: Lawrence to Clayton, February 12, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7.

21 While overtly rebuffing: Wingate to Foreign Office, April 8, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3403, f. 372.

22 ”upon which all evidence”: Yale to Harrison, March 11, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 21.

23 ”one leading principle”: British government White Paper, ”Notes on Zionism,” Part 3. The Zionist Commission in Palestine; February 6, 1919, pp. 1617; PRO-FO 371/4171, f. 102.

24 Certainly there was no: British government White Paper, ”Notes on Zionism,” Part 3. The Zionist Commission in Palestine; February 6, 1919, pp. 1421; PRO-FO 371/4171, f. 100104.

25 ”it was his ambition”: Cornwallis to Symes, April 20, 1918; PRO-FO 882/14, f. 35859.

26 ”On the whole”: Yale to Harrison, April 8, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 25.

27 ”cheap Arab labor”: Yale to Harrison, March 25, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 23.

28 ”as in the [American]”: Yale to Harrison, June 10, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 34.

29 ”once again, pearls”: Aaronsohn, Diary, April 1, 1918; ZY.

30 ”It is to be hoped”: Yale to Harrison, April 8, 1918; YU, Box 2, Folder 25.

31 ”The abstraction of”: Lawrence's account of the expedition to Atatir, and of the deaths of ”Daud” and ”Farraj” (Ali and Othman), are drawn from Seven Pillars, book 8, chapters 112113, pp. 50717.

32 But then the news: Wavell, The Palestine Campaigns, pp. 17384.

33 ”He kept Abbas”: McKale, Curt Prfer, p. 54.

34 A much better solution: Bernstorff to von Hertling, July 19, 1918; PAAA, Roll 22348, Turkei 47, Band 7.

35 Abbas clearly sensed: Oppenheim to Jagow, February 23, 1915; PAAA, Roll 21129, Der Weltkrieg no. 11g, Band 7.

36 ”There was nothing to do”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 520.

37 While British military communiques: Dawnay to EEF Headquarters, May 1, 1918; PRO-FO 882/7, f. 27786.

38 Now, with the proposed: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, pp. 52627.

39 ”a regal gift”: Ibid., p. 527.

40 ”if I should seek revenge”: Aaronsohn, Diary, March 21, 1918; ZY.

41 ”very little winter cereals”: Ibid., April 4, 1918.