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text of the treaty is reprinted in J. C. Hurewitz, Diplomacy in the Near and
Middle East: A Documentary Record 1914-1956, Princeton, N.J., 1956,
17-18.
27. Philby, ‘Najd Mission32-3; F.O. 882/9, IS/18/26, Philby to
Baghdad, 6 June and 25 June 1918.
28. F.O. 882/9, IS/18/26, Baghdad to Government of India, 9 July
1918.
29. L/P&S/10/389, P. 3219-/18, note by Shuckburgh, 24 July 1918.
30. L/P&S/10/389, P. 3219/18, note by Hirtzel, 25 July 1918.
31. L/P&S/10/389, P.3565/18, note by Hirtzel, 14August 1918.
32. Cab. 27/24, Eastern Committee, 26th minutes, 15 August 1918.
p- ^'Ymnittee adopted a. proposal by Wingate in a
1918. Cab. 27/24, E.C. 1154.
•s were concerned about this danger. In
lief in India, General Charles Monro,
in Turks, then his alliance with Bin
. me 2 combined will be too strong for the
empted to approach the Turks, [or] (2) make
event ‘Our flanks in Syria and Mesopotamia
Wi .ectly to these men, but also indirectly through
influence £A&reLea by their action on other Arab leaders and tribes’.
.
Monro concluded that ‘it would appear expedient primarily to keep Bin
Saud on our side’. Ca. 27/31, E.C. 1273, Monro to War Office, 20 August
1918.
34. Philby, ‘Najd Mission\ 33; Cab. 27/33, E.C. 1673, Philby to
Baghdad, 29 August 1918.
35. Cab. 27/37, E.C. 2520, Wingate to Foreign Office, 26 November
1918; Cab. 27/38, E.C. 2699, Wingate to Foreign Office, 10 December
1918. -
36. F.O. 882/9, IS/18/102, Wilson to Arab Bureau, 3 December 1918.
37. F.O. 882/9, IS/18/105, Clayton to Wingate, 10 December 1918.
38. Cab. 27/38, E.C. 2699, Wingate to Foreign Office, 10 December
1918.
39. Philby, ‘NajdMission', 35.
40. Cab. 27/36, E.C. 2380, Baghdad to India Office, 15 November
1918.
41. L/P&S/10/389, P.. 4618/18, note by Shuckburgh, 21 October 1918.
42. L/P&S/10/389, P. 5547/18, Hirtzel to Sir Eyre Crowe (Assistant
Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs), 12 December 1918.
43. L/P&S/10/389, P. 5788/18, note by Hirtzel, 28 December 1918.
44. R/15/5/24, Curzon to W. St. John Brodrick (Secretary of State for
India), 26 March 1904).
45. F.O. 633/24, Curzon to Lord Cromer, 22 April 1915.
46. Memorandum by Curzon, 21 September 1918, quoted in the Earl of
Ronaldshay, The Life of Lord Curzon, London, 1928, III, 161.
47. Cab. 27/24, Eastern Committee, 43rd minutes, 16 December 1918.
48. Cab. 27/24, Eastern Committee, 44th minutes, 18 December 1918.
49. L/P&S/10/389, Interdepartmental Conference on Middle Eastern

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