War by Revolution. Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I

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to AA,12Dec.1915,NARA/T-137/14/0098;andThesigerto Grey, 12,27Jan. 1916,PROf
F0/371/2593/22487,32101.
II4. CIGS toGOCEgypt, 12Feb.1916;andGOC Egypr to CIGS, 13,16 Feb.1916,
PRO/WO33/760.
II5.BritishColonialOffice toGovernmentofSomalilandProtectorate,23 May
1916;andThesigerto FO,17,18May1916,PRO/FO371/2593199491,94522, II3264, re-
spectively.
II6.Thesigerto Grey,IJune1916;andThesigertoBritishcommissioninBerbera
(BritishSomaliland), 17 May1916,PRO/FO371/2593/II9940, II3263,respectively.
117.Thesigerto Grey, 22June1916,PRO/FO371/2593/138936.
II8.ArchertoAndrewBonarLaw(secretaryofstateintheColonialOffice), 18,20
July 1916,PRO/FO371/2593/139236,172763.
II9. Grey toMcMahon, 27 Sept.1916,PRO/FO371/2594/185543.Regardingthe role
oftheAlliedministersintheconspiracy,see in thissamecollectionofdocuments,
Thesigerto Grey, 4and 8 Sept.1916,files197713, 197715.
120.Thesigerto Grey, 28Sept.1916,PRO/FO371/2594/228181.AlsonoteMarcus,
114-16;andGreenfield,138-40.Tafaribecameemperorin 1928,takingtheimperial
nameofHaile SelassieI.
121.Mittwoch(headoftheNfdO),"G.A.,"6 Oct.1916;andRadowitz(charge
d'affairesattheembassy)to AA,13Oct.1916,NARA/T-137/14!OII7-18,OII9.
122.Forexample,"Arabienunddas Kalifat,"VossischeZeitutig,17Oct.1916;"Mecca
withouttheTurks,"TheTimes(London),4 Nov.1916;"KonigreichArabien,"Ham-
burgerFremdenblatt,16 Nov. 1916;"EnArabie. Lenouveaumanifesteducherif,"
Temps,12Nov.1916;"ArabiaAccusesTurksofBrutality,"TheTimes(London),3Dec.
1916;and"NewArabiaStartsWell,"TheSun(New York), 6 Dec.1916.
123.MainlytoregainthefavoroftheFrenchandRussians;Bernlegationto AA,21
and27July1916,PA/Tiirkeir65/Bd.38.OnthebackgroundandideasofSabaheddin,
seeAhmad,YoungTurks,177-78;Hourani,ArabicThought,181,263, 265, 282;and
Landau,26-29. Also,noteRomberg(ministerin Bern) toBethmannHollweg,27July
1916,containingareportfromthespecialistonOrientalaffairsattheconsulatein
Geneva,F.Marum, 15 July1916,NARA/T-149/0298-0302;andWesendonk,memo, 25
June1916,NARA/T-137/144/0930.
124.RegardingFaridandtheEgyptiannationalistsandstudents,noteLt. Col. V.
G. W. Kell (WOLondon)toR.H.Campbell(FO), 30 Mar.1916,PRO/FO371/2666/
61638;andRombergtoBethmannHollweg,4 Nov. 1916,NARA/T-137/137/0241.On
thedislikeoftheTurkishexiles for theEgyptians,seeRombergtoBethmannHollweg,
6 June1916,NARA/T-120/4952/L368309.
125.Fischer,Germany'sAims,224-28;andRombergtoBethmannHollweg,6, 8
May 1916,NARA/T-149/402/0830-32,0836.OthermembersoftheTurkishopposition
partyinSwitzerlandincludedGabrielEffendiNoradunghian,aformerTurkishfor-
eignminister;HakkiHalidBey,apreviousdirectorofthetreasuryinConstantinople;
IzzetPasha,formerlyTurkishministerinWashington,D.C.; Lutfi Bey,onceTurkish
consulgeneralin Paris; KemalMidhatBey,anassociateofSabaheddin;RashidPa-
sha, apreviousOttomanministeroftheinterior;SharifPasha,aformergeneral;and
JeanTeuniBey,onceanofficial attheTurkishembassyinLondon.



  1. LordDrogheda,"MemorandumonTurkishPeaceOvertures,"20 Nov.1917,
    PRO/FO371/3057/222199;andRombergtoBethmannHollweg, 10 Juneand 4 July

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