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213-16 GLB's report ‘Syria in October 1919’ and Wilson’s note
L/P&S/18 (B337).
216 Cox/Wilson about GLZ3, BM MSS (2545 5-59) and Marlowe,
op. cit.
216-19 Wilson and GLB in Baghdad, Marlowe, op. cit., and author’s
correspondence with Brigadier Longrigg and Mr Lionel
Jardinc.
219 Letter to HB Dee. 18th, BL, CEB.
220 The Van Esses. Sec Mrs Van Ess, Pioneers in the Arab World.
220 Gertrude and archaeological work, see H. R. Hall, A
Season's Work at Ur, Methuen, 1930.
221 Bell fortunes. Conversations with Mr J. Bell Dixon, and
letter March 2nd, 1977 from Mr John Dorman Bolckow to
audior, vide ‘Protection for steel was a political issue in
I925/35* My grandfather [Sir Arthur Dorman] was a
Conservative and Protectionist, Sir Hugh Bell was a
Liberal Free Trader ... ’
222 Interview with Sulaiman Faidhi. Report June 4th, 1920 to
S. of S., 10. Box 303/1/2 Durham.
223 Iraq rebellion. For supplementary accounts see Wilson, op.
cit. (1917-20) and Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia.
223 Lawrence’s version, sec Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia
and Marlowe, op. cit.
224 GLB letters, BL, CEB, UBL. Also VC July 19th, 1920,
‘Personally, as I daresay my Father will have told you, I’ve
had the most difficult months which have ever fallen to my
lot.’
224-5 Haldanc/Wilson. See Loyalties and Wilson Papers, London
Library, GLB to Lawrence. See Lawrence, Letters from his
Friends, cf. CEB pp. 162-3, ‘The thing isn’t made any
easier by the tosh T. E. Lawrence is writing in the papers,’ !
and, ‘Again I’m up against T. E. Lawrence.’ L/P&S/11/175
(WO and 10 views).
225 Ibn Saud. See Philby, Pleart of Arabia p. 229 et seq. and
Arabian Jubilee p. 5 5 et seq. For history of dispute between
Sharif and Ibn Saud, FO 882. Ikhwan, see Philby, op. cit.
and Dickson, Kuwait and Her Neighbours.
226 Philby and Khurma dispute, L/P&S/18 (B308) and FO 882
(IS/i 8/37) and Monroe, Philly of Arabia.
226 Death of Leachman, L/P&S/11/175 (file 5890). GLB's
views, CEB and Monroe, op. cit.
227 GLB on Wilson, BL, CEB, UBL.
227 Arrival of Cox in Basra, UBL Sunday Oct. 17th to HB.
228 Churchill. See The World Crisis - Vol. 4, The Aftermath.