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File 53/1915 Part IV 'German War: Turkey; Caliphate etc' [156r] (308/481)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1915-1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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latent In it something of the destructive force of the
Roundhead party in England, and if.it prevailed,
we would have, in place of the tolerant, rather
comfortable, Islam of MECCA and DAMASCUS, the
fanaticism of NEJD, as described by I'algrave,
intensified and swollen by success.
Further, for his immediate purpose, the >herif
has no use for ibn oaoud. The •iherif wishes to hunt
out the Turks from Arabia, and in no direction can Ibn
3aoud aid him in this object. He cannot let nahabi
fighting men into the Hedjaz; there is no road for
them to Yemen, nor would they go so far afield; and
Ibn Rashid would not tolerate :3aoud f 8 help in the
north. The Wahabi state is a purely Arab one,
ringed round, and hemmed in, by deserts, and by
unfriendly Arab states, with no foreign policy that
touches the Turks, and no influence (except on the
Gulf Coast) on any larger sphere of interests.
Idrisi’s tribesmen went solid for the Wahabis
at their moment of success, and therefore to the
Meccans they too are in the shadow of that nightmare.
Also, the rule is in Arabia that you are better dis
posed to one further off, than to your neighbour.
However it is, there has been for long discord between
Aslr and Hedjnz, and this persisted till about nine
months ago. Negotiations have since been incepted
between the Sherif and the -Uirisi, and have led to a
notably better feeling. The 3herif has persuaded
the Idrisi to forego his futile attacks on Yemen,
lie was not fighting the Turks so much as the strong
border tribes, who object to be plundered by Asiri,
even
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Part 4 consists of correspondence relating to the possible declaration of a caliphate in Arabia and is a continuation of part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/525/1). The papers tell of the British assessment of the situation and the French attitude, as well as correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, the Grand Sharif of Mecca. The file also discusses the British view of the proposed blockade of the Arabian ports in the Red Sea.
The file also includes a printed document (ff 25-242) marked 'secret' entitled 'Policy in the Middle East', which consists mainly of communications on the military situation in Mespotamia from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes to the Director of Military Information.
The discussion over such matters is mostly between Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, the General Officer Commanding, Egypt, and the Commander-in-Chief, India.
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