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6.Khalidi,BritishPolicy,25,31,37-40;andRobertL.Tignor,Modernizationand
BritishColonialRule in Egypt,1882-1914,278.
- SeeCromertoForeignOffice,London[hereafterFO], 12Apr. 1906,PRO/FO
371/65/12624.Muller,196,mentionsOppenheim'sinvolvementin theAqabaincident
butdoesnotdefinewhatit was.
8.Kramer,61;andMajorJ.RamsaytoSecretarytoGovernmentofIndia,19 Nov.
1906,notinginformationaboutOppenheimhehadgleanedfromthelocalGerman
consul,Richarz,inPRO/FO371/245/II50.Richarz,saidRamsay,"seemedtothink
thatBaronOppenheimhadverylittleauthorityfromtheGermanGovernment,but
withoutappearingtoointerestedIcouldnotdiscoverwhytheGermanGovernment
paidhim£400a year."
9.Khalidi,BritishPolicy,42-43.
ro.Ibid.,58-n
II. See Ibid.,3-ro;P.).Vatikiotis,TheHistoryofModernEgypt: FromMuhammad
AlitoMuberak,173-76;andTignor,chapter8.
12.Inanotherpartofhisspeech,Greyusedtheword"fanaticism";Landau,27-28.
13.See, forinstance,Germanpressarticlesthatmentionedthesubject,"Arabische
Hochzeitsgebrauche,"DerTag,4 Aug. 1907;"HaremslebeninEgypten,"Berliner Loksl-
Anzeiger, 31 July1908;"AgyptischerAberglaube,"BerlinerLokal-Anzeiger, 31 August
1908;Kramer,189-9°;andGrunwald,"PenetrationPacifique,"96-97.
14.Lascelles to Grey, II Apr. 1907,PRO/FO371/248/II874;andBernstorfftoBulow
("InhaleUnterredungmitLordCromer"),7 Apr. 1907,NARA/T-137!31/0771-72.
IS.BernstorfftoBulow("InhaleDieHaltungdes Khedive."), 28 Dec. 1906, NARA/
T-137/31/0725-26;andGermanembassyTherapiato Bulow,3June19°5,NARA/T'137/
28/0124-25.
16.NoteDonaldM. McKale,"We1tpolitikVersusImperiumBritannica:Anglo-
GermanRivalry in Egypt, 1904-14,"CanadianJournalofHistory 22 (1987):197-205;
andAA toBernstorff,25 Mar. 1907, NARA/T-137/31/0753.
17.DonaldM. McKale,CurtPtiiier:GermanDiplomatfrom the KaisertoHitler,
13-14;andRonaldStorrs,Orientations,121.
18.SeetheEgyptiangovernmentmemorandum,"NoteconfidentielleeSonExcel-
lence lePresidentduConseildesMinisrres,"II Nov. 19II,PRO/FO371/III4/44628.
19.Oppenheimto Bulow, 26 May 1908,NARA/T·137/32/0100;andOppenheimto
Bulow, 31July 1906, NARA/T-137/31/0661.
20.Landau,97.
21.SeeOppenheim'smemo,"Berlin,den28.juli1918.,"PAjTiirkei 165 (Arabien)/
Bd. 42.TheBritishnotedonlymuchlaterthemeetingbetweenHusaynand
Oppenheim;noteD. G.Hogarth,"Germansin Hejaz,"ArabBulletin,No. 77 (27Jan.
1918):6, inPRO/FO882/volume27.HusaynarrivedassharifintheHijazin Dec. 1908;
seeRobertLacey,TheKingdom:ArabiaandtheHouseoiSa'ud,85.
22."TheForeignLegionin Algeria,"TheTimes(London), 17 Dec. 1908;Landau,
96-97;andMuller,194.
23.Oppenheimto Bulow, 28 May 1909, NARA/T-137/28/0365-66.
24.Count).de Salis(counselorattheBritishembassyin Berlin) to Grey, 8July
1908,PRO/FO371/452/24070;andOppenheimto Bulow, 28 May 1909, NARA/T-137/
28/°365,notingAbbasHilmi'soppositionto aconstitution.
