57.ContainedinBernstorffto AA,16 Nov.1917,PAjTiirkeiI65/Bd. 42.
58.Wingateto FO, 24 Dec.1917,IOLR/L/P&S/IO/467;andAntonius,227-28.
59.Wingateto FO, 24 Dec.1917,IOLR/L/P&S/IO/467;Stewart,178;Yapp, 285;and
Fromkin,221.
- SeetheaccountofthespeechinArabBulletin,77(27Jan.1918):32,PRO/FO
882/27;andKedourie,EnglandandtheMiddleEast,I07.
61.Evans-Pritchard,141-42;andCol. M. G.Talbot,"ReportontheNegotiationsof
theAnglo-ItalianMissionwithMohammedIdris-el-Mahdi-el-Senussi(january,Feb-
ruary,March,andApril1917).,"PRO/FO371/2670/198793.
62.Wesendonk,"G.A.,"8 Nov.1917,NARA/T-uo/4I97/K203I56-I57;SektionPolitik
to AA, 13JuneandIO Aug.1917;and"Abschrift.Berichtdes Leiters derExpedition
Mirr,RittmeisterFrhr.vonTodenwarth,inMisrata(Tripolis).Militarisches.,"NARA/
T-I37/6/OI53, 0165,0I88.
63.See, forexample,"Libya.,"ArabBulletin,64(27Sept.1917):394;and"Libya.Situ-
ationinCyrenaicaandTripolitania.,"ArabBulletin,71(27Nov. 1917):478-79,inPROf
F0882/26.
64.Accordingto Farwell, 3IO,theBritishhadabouteightythousandmen,while
theGermanshadlessthantenthousand;alsonoteBoahen,7:133.Onthewhere-
aboutsofLijIyasu, seeMarcus,II7.Duringthefallofr9I7,theItalianscausedBritain
momentaryconcernwhentheyreportedthatIyasu wastryingtoreachtheArabian
coast.NoteItalianembassy,"Ethiopia,"5 Oct.1917;FO toThesiger,16 Oct.1917;and
Thesigerto FO, 18Oct.1917,IOLR/L/P&S/II/u8.
65.TheplanwasdiscussedinAdolfMuller(GermanministerinSwitzerland)to AA,
rzjune 1919 ("Inhalt.Abessinien."),whichenclosedamemoby apreviousresidentof
Abyssinia, Dr.Weinzinger,"BetrifftAbessinien.,"rzjune1919,NARA/T-I37/I4/0I36-38.
66.ThesigertoBalfour,22 Feb.1917,PRO/FO371/2855/68793;Bertieto FO, 3June
1917;andThesigerto FO, 5June1917,IOLR/L/P&S/II/I22/PI988.
67."Abyssinia,"ArabBulletin,62(8Sept.1917):)75-76and63(18Sept.1917):384,
PRO/FO882/26;andBertie to FO, IOJuly1917,IOLR/L/P&S/II/I22/PI988.
68.Campbell(Addis Abeba) to FO, II Dec.1917,PRO/FO371/2855/237723;and"Ger-
mansfromAbyssinia.,"ArabBulletin,72(5 Dec.1917):493,PRO/FO882/26.TheAbys-
sinianregimewasoneofdualauthority,inwhichpowerwassharedbetweenthe
empressandtheregent,eachwithhis orherown,oftenconflicting,policies. See
Boahen,T305;andMarcus,117-19.
69.Rathmann,StossrichtungNabost,76-79;andFischer,Germany'sAims,359.
- Kheiry toGermanforeignsecretary,I May1917;andWaldburgtoMichaelis,IO
Aug.1917,NARA/T-I49/400/0039-43,00I3,respectively.
- AA toGermanlegationStockholm,12 Nov.1917;ChattopadhyayatoBerlin
Indiancommittee,I Nov.1917,enclosingadocument,"Projekteinerrussisch-indischen
Annaherung;"andcommitteetoWesendonk,31 Dec.1917,NARA/T-I49/400/0U2,
0I23-26,0271-72,0277. Also seeIndiancommitteetoWesendonk, 3 and7 Feb.1917,
NARA/T-I491399/0435-38, 0447-48.RegardingtheStockholmconference,Stevenson,
156-62, isuseful.FortheGermanresponsetotheconference,noteHerzfeld,224;and
forBritain,Guinn,235.
72.QuotedinBernstorfftoAA,19Jan.1917,NARA/T-I491399/0417.
73.Dignan,73-74.OnChakravarry'sactivitiesintheUnitedStates,noteBerlin
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