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

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72-73,79,aboutthecontinuingambitionsofGermanleadersduring1917-18in cen-
tralAfricaandtheIndianOcean.
24.Prufer,"Krieg,"entryfor 30June1918,PruferPapers/HIWRP;andMcKale,Curt
Priiter, 54.
25.Pruferto AA,IAug.1918;BernstorfftoHerding,27Apr.1918,Rombergto AA,2
Oct.1918,NARA/T-137/138/0307, 0282, 0339,respectively;andMcKale,CurtPriiter,
54-55.RegardingGermanattemptsto wootheex-khedive'sson,Abdal-Moneim,
fromSwitzerlandtoGermany,notePrufer,memo,3 Sept.1918,PA/NachlassCurt
Prufer/PolitischeAulsiitze;andPrufer,"Krieg,"entryfor 17 Aug.1918,PruferPapers/
HIWRP.
26.Bernstorffto AA,27 Aug.1918;WaldburgtoHerding, 16 Sept.1918;andAA to
Constantinopleembassy,29 Sept.1918,NARA/T-137/6/0261, 0264, 0266.
27.Hagen(submarinecommander),"Berichttiber dieAusfiihrungdesTransport
nachMisrataundtiber die Lage inTripolisimOktober/November1918.,"NARA/T-
137/6/0273-274.
28.Chattopadhyaya'santi-Britishandpro-Indianpropagandahadattractedthe
attentionoftheBolsheviksandtheirnegotiatorattheRusso-Germanpeace talksat
BrestLirovsk, LeonTrotsky,whopromisedtheIndiansafetraveltoPetrograd.See
GermanlegationStockholmto AA, 14, 23Jan.1914;andHarDayal toDatta,18Mar.
1918,NARA/T-149/400/0288,3°3, 0434. Also,noteHerwig,First World War,382,on
Trotsky'scallingonBritainandFrancetoapplythedoctrineofself-determinationto
Ireland,Egypt,India,Madagascar,andIndochina.
29.Wesendonk,"G.A.,"6 Feb.1918;andFreiherrHilmarvondemBussche-
Haddenhausen(undersecretaryofstateintheAA) toStockholmlegation,19 Feb.
19 18,NARA/T-149/400/0351-52, 0363-64.


  1. AA toStockholmlegation,27 Feb.1918,NARA/T-149/400/0371-72;Rathmann,
    StossrichtungNeliost,70-71;andFischer,Germany'sAims,586-87.
    31.Boththe AAandGetmanpolice,suspiciousofthe loyalryoftherevolutionaries
    inGermany,keptthemundersurveillance.NoteGlasenapp,"G.A,"2 Mar.1918;and
    BerlinIndiancommitteetoWesendonk,26 Mar.1918,NARA/T-49/400/0384,0439.

  2. Whilereturningin 1917 throughRussiatoGermany,PrataphadmetTrotsky
    andotherBolshevikleaders.SeeGrunauto AA,8 Apr.1918;"OberkomrnandoAAd.
    N.O. Nr. 5602 to AA," 22 Mar.1918;AA toGrunau,SektionPolitik,Stockholmand
    Bernlegations,andViennaembassy,27 Mar.1918;Wesendonk,"G.A,"27 Mar.1918;
    Pratap,"ForthegraciousperusalofHisImperialMajesrytheEmperorofthe Ger-
    manEmpire.AnaccountofthetripfromBerlintoBerlinthroughTurkey,Persia,
    Afghanistan,andRussia.," 2 Apr.1918;andHentigto AA, 3 Apr.1918,NARA/T-149/
    400/0492,0416,0419-20,0437-38,0457-66,0519-25,respectively.
    33.Trumpener,GermanyandtheOttomanEmpire,352-53;andGilbert,First World
    War,484-85.

  3. ElieKedourie,"GreatBritain,theOtherPowers,andtheMiddleEast Before
    andAfterWorldWar I," inThe Great Powers in theMiddleEast, I9I9-I939,ed. Uriel
    Dann,3.RepeatedmentionofthehostilitytowardtheGermansamongtheTurks
    andArabs is intheissuesoftheArabBulletinfrom1918,PRO/FO882/vol. 27;and
    Wallach,Anatomie,244-49.Onthe escapeoftheYoungTurkleaders toGermanyin
    Nov.1918,notablywiththe aidofSeeckt (later thechiefoftheGermanhighcommand,
    from1920 to 1926),seeTrumpener,GermanyandtheOttomanEmpire, 358-64.

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