ملف ١٩١٥/٥٣ الجزء IV "الحرب الألمانية: تركيا؛ الخلافة إلخ" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٦] (٤٨١/٣٠٨)

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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