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NOTES TO PAGES 15 8-66 281
p. 277, Dardanelles p. 308 et seq. Also Kitchener Papers,
PRO 30/57-44.
158 Meetings and correspondence with Abdullah ibn Husain
of Mecca and with Husain, Grand Sharif, L/P&S/i 8(13215/
222) and FO 882.
158 Simla residence. Malcolm Muggcridge in The Grcenstick,
part 1 of his autobiography, says: *Wildflowcr Hall, built
by Lord Kitchener when he was Commander-in-Chief,
some little distance away from Simla, just far enough to
make a pleasant ride and feel like a rival seat of authority.’
158 Fitzgerald, Storrs. Sec Magnus, op. cit. and Adelson, Mark
Sykes: Por/rait of an Amateur. Also Storrs, Orientations.
*59 Kitchener/Abdullah, document B222, telegrams 219 and i
233. B22, telegram 303, L/P&S/18. !
l6o Freya Stark. Sec Stark, Letters, vol. 3.
l6l Sykes. Adelson, op. cit. and BL p. 295. ‘Bundle of preju­
dices’, Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
l6l Letter to 1TB marked ‘Sunday’, UBL. f
l6l Letter to HB, Sat. Nov. 20th, P&O Arabia, UBL.
l6l Arrival in Cairo, Nov. 30th, BL.
162 Personnel and activities in Cairo, BL, CEB and UBL. i
163 Clayton, Sykes, FO 882 (Arab Bureau) Vol. ii, Dec. 13th
and 20th, 1915.
163 Formation of Bureau. Telegrams FO, High Commissioner,
Intrusive Cairo, Jan. ist-4th, 1916. FO 882.
164 Interdepartmental Committee, Jan. 7th, 1916, FO 882, and i
L/P&S/10/576.
164 Fitzgerald to Clayton, FO 882. See also McMahon to
Nicolson. Private letter regarding control of Bureau and
counter-espionage, Feb. 2nd, 1916, FO 882, and document
P4744/15, L/P&S/10/576, Dec. 30th, 1915: ‘Mr Chamber-
lain understands that the Bureau will be under supervision
of CID and that Intelligence will be co-ordinated with DMI
and disseminated by news department FO.’
164 10 viewpoint, L/P&S/10/576 minute Jan. 14th, 1916.
164 Sykes-Picot negotiation, Petrograd and Declaration of
London, FO 822.
164 Letter from GLB Jan. 16th, BL.
164 Letter from GLB Jan. 24th, BL.
165-6 Letter to Lord Robert Cecil, from Court Hotel Cairo, FO
371 and CEB.
166 Arab nationalism. See quotations from GLB and TEL in
Kedourie, England and the Middle East, vide TEL ‘a doctrin­
aire without a doctrine’.

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