ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٤‎١‎٢] (٤٩٤/٣٧١)

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4 delicafe© situation has arissn in connsotion with our
relations with him.
The Italians dsaire us to plodfgs ourselves to carry on
hostilities against him till they have re-established their
position in Cyrenaica, which will perhaps not be achieved for
several years.
If we give the Italian Government any reason to suppose
that we man to make separate terms with the Uenussi behind
Italy*s back - which will enable him to act against Italy with-
-out fear of attack from us # it roi^it consider itself entitled to
make a separate peace with the Central Powers*
It is clear that we cannot undertake to continue hostilities
against the Senussi indefinitely. The solution sugr^sted is