ملف ١٩١٥/٥٣ الجزء IV "الحرب الألمانية: تركيا؛ الخلافة إلخ" [و‎‎١‎٦‎٠] (٤٨١/٣١٦)

this seems to be control and colonisation by a
European power other than ourselves, which would
Inevitably come into conflict with the interest we
already possess in the Near East.
Sherif Hussein’s activites have already been
oi use to us. He has held in the Imam from
attacking ADEN, he has quieted the Mullah in
domallland, he has divided the counsels of ibu
Nashid. he has refused to preach a Jehad, or to
allow tae legal jehad to be declared; he has
countered, and is still countering, Turkish influence
in the Hedjaz; has prevented the raising of
volunteers; and has forbidden the placarding of anti
British news in the public places of MECCA; all this
obviously with a mind some day to taking the place of
the Turkish Government in the Hedjaz, himself. If we
can only arrange that this political change shall be
a violent one, we will have abolished the threat of
Islam, by dividing it against itself, in its very
heart. There will then he a Khalifa in Turkey and a
Khalifa in Arabia, in theological warfare, and Islam
will be as little formidable as the Papacy when Popes
lived in Avignon.