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48 (14Oct. 1914),48 (ISOct.1914);andCheetham'stelegramsto Grey, 21(8Sept.1914),
28 (21Sept.1914),31(25Sept.1914).
7.Cheethamto Grey, 28 Oct. 1914,PRO/F037I/197I/64465.
8.MacMunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,14-15.
- SeetheaccountoftheinterrogationofMorsonIO Oct.1914,"MulazirnAwal
RobertMorsrecalledandre-examined,states,"IOLR/L/P&S/IO/464.Note,moreover,
"InterrogatoriesofLieutenantMors"and"FurtherInterrogatoriesofLieutenant
Mors,"Fa,Correspondence,43-45(28 Sept.1914),73-74(n.d.);Morsreceived a sen-
reneeoflifeimprisonment,anunusualoneinthatmostsuchprisonerswere ex-
ecuted,particularlyby theGermans.
IO.Grey toMallet,24 Oct.1914;Malletto Grey, 29 Oct.1914,Fa,Correspondence,
69, 71;andKress, 53.
II.Thisdrewavigorousprotestfromtheconsularleaders-unheededbythegov-
ernment-whichclaimedthattheactionviolatedEgyptianneutralityandlaws (ca-
pitulations)protectingEuropeans.SeeCheethamto Grey, 9 Oct.1914,PRO/Fa371/
197I/578IO;Storrs,130;MacMunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,
IS;andEgyptianministtyofinterior,"GeneralSituationin Egypt," 27Dec. 1914,PROf
Fa371/2355/4307.
12.Farnie,531.
13.Ibid.;MacmunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,14-15;and
Kress, 52-53.
14.MacmunnandFalls,MilitaryOperationsEgypt&Palestine,14-15.
IS. See above,chapter2.
16.FatoCheetham,IIAug.1914;andCheethamto Grey, 9 Aug. 1914,IOLR/L/
P&S/IO/464.
17.Fromkin,IOO-I,whichviewsthisdocumentascrucialtofutureBritishpolicy,
mentionsnothingaboutClayton'sassertionthattheTurkshadsuccessinattracting
theArabs;andJankowski,"EgyptandEarly ArabNationalism,"256.
18.See WOCairo,intelligencedepartment,"AppreciationofSituationin Arabia,"
6 Sept.1914,PRO/Fa882 (ArabBureauPapers)/I3/MIS/I4/1.
19.Ibid.
- Ibid.
21.ThemaininitiativestounitethembehindtheTurksbeganonlylater,during
NovemberandDecember,whenthePortecontactedtheArableaders,asdidtheAus-
trianOrientalistMusiL
- Heller, 139-41.
23.Cohen,306;andHeller,2IOn. 62.
24.QuotedinCohen,306. Also,noteBusch,Britain, India,andthe Arabs, 56-57,
61-62,220.InoneinstancetheBritishpracticedsuchcaution.WhentheArableader
ofBasra, SayyidTalib,approachedthe localBritishconsulaboutanallianceagainst
theTurks,theBritishrefused,mainlyoutofadeep,andjustifiable,mistrustofTalib.
RegardingthepopularbeliefinBritishofficialdom,especiallyinConstantinopleand
Cairo,thatJewsandFreemasonscontrolledthePorte,seeFromkin,41-44.
25.NoteFatoCheetham, 24 Sept.1914,IOLR/L/P&S/IOI387;Fromkin,IOO-I;
Heller.rae:Kedourie,EnglandandtheMiddleEast,49;andBusch,Britain, India,and
the Arabs, 57-58.
- SeeCohen,303;andBusch,Britain, India,andthe Arabs, 56-63.
