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196 Unsigned letter to TEL. Probably from George Lloyd.
*97 Storrs, J3L, May nth, 1917.
*97 Storrs at Jidda and Abdullah’s statement, FO 882.
*97 Sykes’s memos, ibid.
198 Sharifian solution. See Kedouric, England and /be Middle
East. Also Marlowe, Monroe, Philby and Wilson in works
already quoted.
198 Conflicting views on policy. See Marlowe, Eife of Sir Arnold
Wilson; Philby, Arabian Days; Wilson, Loyalties.
198 Sykcs-Picot agreement and revelation by Bolsheviks, WO
33/696. See also Katz, Battleground, pp. 49-52, and Lloyd
George, The Truth about the Peace Treaties.
J99 Gertrude on Sykcs-Picot agreement, FO 882, document
X/LO 3951, June 1917.
200 ‘Able and persuasive writers.’ John Connell, The ‘Office’,
p. 32.
200 GLB’s work. Political documentation too voluminous to
list, but much of it to be found in FO 882 and L/P&S/10/
586. Intelligence reports filed under WO 33/905 Scries C,
Vol. 5. Correspondence with RGJ’ about work on maps.
December 1918, RGS archive.
200 Al Arab, BL, CEB.
201 Quotation from ‘an earlier biographer’, Elizabeth Burgoyne,
CEB p. 60, Vol. 2.
201 Austen Chamberlain and Mesopotamian setbacks. Report
of Parliamentary Commission on Mesopotamia, 1917. Cmd.
8610.
201 Allenby, see Official History of the War. Also, Wavell,
Allcnby: Soldier and Statesman, and War Cabinet Ci/137/391.
201 Letter to FB, UBL Feb. 24th.
201 Balfour Declaration, GLB’s views on, CEB, p. 74, Vol. 2.
Letter to Doughty-Wylie, UBL, Le Touquet, January 1915.
202 Cox in London. litters to Hardinge, Chirol etc., CEB, VC.
203 Founder’s Medal, RGS. Presented to Sir Hugh Bell by
President, Sir Thomas Holdich, May 27th, 1918.
203 Letters, BL, CEB.

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205 Letters from GLB, BL, CEB. From Civil Commission,
Dec. 7th, 1917, BL: ‘I haven’t seen Gen. Marshall since I
came back but he gives signs of being sympathetic towards
our side of the game.’