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205 GLB letter mentioning Howell, Margoliouth, etc.,Dee. 5th.
1918, CEB.
206 Armistice declaration, see Official History.
206 Cox, Wilson and GLB, views on post-war government. See
Cox, Notes to BL, p. 409 ct seq., and Graves, Life of Sir
Percy Cox; Marlowe, Life of Sir Arnold Wilson; Wilson
Papers, British Museum, MSS (5 245 5-59); Wilson, Loyalties;
and, for view from within Whitehall, Young, The Indepen­
dent Arab.
206 Wilson’s appointment, discussions in Baghdad etc., see
Marlowe, op. cit. and Young, op. cit. Also BL, CEB.
207 GLB’s memo and report, Self-Determination in Mesopotamia.
File 4722/18, L/P&S/10/755-64.
208 Peace Conference, letter to FB (dated Sunday, March
16th), ‘Lord Robert [Cecil] is, I think, the salient figure of
the Conference and T. E. Lawrence the mostpicturcsque ...*
See also Wilson, op. cit. and BM MSS (52455-59), Young,
op. cit., BL, CEB, UBL, TEL Letters, p. 282 et seq.
209 Wilson on self-government, BM MSS (52455-59).
209 Gertrude in Paris, BL, CEB, UBL.
210 Wilson in Paris, op. cit. and BM MSS (52455-59).
210 Wilson about Gertrude, BM MSS (52455-59).
211 Meinertzhagen and Aaronsohn, see Aaronsohn, Yomati
1916-18 and Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary. Also U.S.
Department of Agriculture Bulletin 180, 1910. For details of
other ‘agents’ of same family see Engle, The Nili Spies.
211 Letter to Frankfurter. Its provenance seems connected with
an almost incoherent essay by Sykes (FO 882) filed by the
FO before Sykes left for Paris in January 1919. Sykes had
carefully cut his signature from the original document.
212 International Commission. The King-Crane Commission,
set up at the request of President Wilson. British representa­
tives were McMahon and Hogarth.
212 Wilson/Cox discussions, BM MSS (5 245 5-5 9) and Marlowe,
op. cit.
212 Gertrude’s return, BL, CEB.
212 Dismissal of Meinertzhagen, see his Middle East Diary, also
Wavell, Allenby: Soldier and Statesman.
Syrian question. Secret agreement between Clemenceau
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and Faisal. See TEL, Letters, p. 671.
Storrs in Jerusalem, see his Orientations.
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Arab politicians in Syria, BL, CEB.
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Fattuh, CEB.
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Wilson to Stephenson, BM MSS (52455-59).
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