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20 ”gave a horrible cry”: Lawrence, ”The Destruction of the 4th. Army,” October 1918; PRO-WO 882/7, f. 360.

21 ”then we turned our Hotchkiss”: Ibid.

22 ”The whole place was indescribably”: Barrow, The Fire of Life, pp. 20912.

23 To add a different wrinkle: An interesting discussion of the Tafas incident, and of the attempt by some of Lawrence's army colleagues to defend his reputation against Lawrence himself, can be found in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, pp. 23440.

24 ”we were on the eve”: Stirling, Safety Last, pp. 9394.

25 ”I understood that”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 563.

26 ”agrees with my carrying on”: Lawrence to General Headquarters, October 1, 1918; PRO-WO 157/738.

27 ”We called out the Arab”: Lawrence, ”The Destruction of the 4th. Army,” October 1918; PRO-WO 882/7, f. 364.

28 ”wet red galleries”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 656.

29 ”Triumphal entry”: Chauvel, ”Notes,” as cited by Hill, Chauvel of the Light Horse, p. 184.

30 ”the British Government”: CIGS to Allenby, September 25, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3383, f. 48992.

31 ”the belligerent status”: War Office to General Headquarters, Egypt, October 1, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3383, f. 49899.

32 ”who would work for”: Chauvel, ”Notes,” as cited by Hill, Chauvel of the Light Horse, p. 184.

33 ”I feverishly wrote report”: Yale, It Takes So Long, chapter 10, p. 3.

34 ”that he would not work”: Chauvel, ”Notes,” as cited by Hill, Chauvel of the Light Horse, p. 185.

Epilogue: Paris 1 ”Blast the Lawrence”: Lawrence to Armstrong, October 6, 1914; UT, Folder 2, File 6.

2 ”a malign influence”: Arthur Hirtzel to Curzon, June 19, 1919; PRO-FO 371/4149, f. 149A.

3 ”to a large extent responsible”: Clark-Kerr, quoted by Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 617.

4 ”All necessary measures”: The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement, January 3, 1919, as reproduced in Friedman, Tension in Palestine, pp. 15761.

5 ”The establishment of a National”: Weizmann, ”Proposals Relating to the Establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine,” November 19, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3385.

6 Instead, they included: Gelfand, The Inquiry, pp. 6062.

7 The Report on the Desires: E. H. Byrne, Report on the Desires of the Syrians, October 7, 1918; YU Box 4, Folder 23.

8 ”We fought over boundary”: Yale, It Takes So Long, chapter 10, p. 6.

9 ”extreme depression”: Garnett, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 294.

10 ”the racial kins.h.i.+p”: The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement, January 3, 1919, as reproduced in Friedman, Tension in Palestine, pp. 15761.

11 ”not only [the] questions”: Lawrence to Liddell Hart, Graves and Liddell Hart, T. E. Lawrence: Letters to His Biographers, Pt. 2, p. 143.

12 ”a.s.sist in promoting”: Sykes, memorandum, October 15, 1918; PRO-FO 371/3413.

13 ”Don't take Mark”: Hogarth to Clayton, quoted by Adelson, Mark Sykes, p. 281.

14 ”whoever takes over Syria”: Sykes, as quoted by Adelson, Ibid., p. 289.

15 ”I said something to him”: Lloyd George, as quoted by Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, p. 609.

16 ”Chaim [Weizmann] said”: Aaronsohn, Diary, January 16, 1919; ZY.

17 ”I hate the way”: Aaronsohn, as quoted by Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn, p. 406.

18 In a series of memoranda: For details on the U.S.-UK oil concession controversy of 19191924, see DeNovo, American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, pp. 167209; Fanning, Foreign Oil and the Free World, chapter 5; Shwadran, The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, pp. 4039; and PRO-FO 141/456, File 6522.

19 Scurrying into the breach: Suleiman Na.s.sif to Yale, March 24, 1924; BU Box 15, Folder 6.

20 As he told a senior: Yale to Birch Helms (Socony), May 5, 1922; BU Box 15, Folder 5.

21 ”smash the debasing tyranny”: Yale, ”Islam Versus Christianity,” North American Review, February 1923; BU Box 11.

22 ”the exploitive nature”: Yale, letter to Free World, August 1942; BU Box 1, Folder 9.

23 It was a myth: McKale, Curt Prfer, p. 59.

24 ”Our propaganda suffered”: Prfer to Otto Gunther von Wesendonck, German Foreign Ministry, November 2, 1918; NARA T136, Roll 94, Frame 21.

25 For these and other activities: PRO-KV 2/3114.

26 ”All this is terrible”: Prfer, as quoted by McKale, Curt Prfer, p. 177.

27 ”Students will be”: From Prfer's MI5 Security Service file, PRO-KV 2/3114.

28 ”the Arabs are like a page”: Lawrence to Graves, May 21, 1912; Graves and Liddell Hart, T. E. Lawrence: Letters to His Biographers, Pt. 1, p. 15.

29 ”walled its bearers”: Lawrence, Seven Pillars, p. 641.

30 ”made straight all”: Ibid., p. 276.

31 ”is more often praised”: Meyers, The Wounded Spirit, p. 11.

32 ”Please apologize”: Lawrence to Newcombe, February 28, 1929; UT Folder 5, File 2.

33 ”I've changed”: Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, as cited in Brown, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 290.

34 ”at present”: Lawrence to Rogers, as cited in Brown, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 536.