March 28, 1921 Jerusalem Conference
Winston Churchill, King Abdullah and High Commissioner Herbert Samuel at the Jerusalem Conference on March 28th, 1921: Source: Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2013
India Muslims and Oil
March 12th, 1921 The Cairo Conference
Winston Churchill, Secretary of the State for the Colonies, in keeping with Britain’s ‘economy with honor’ policy towards the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, had sponsored and chaired a conference at Cairo on 12th march 1921, to draw up a blueprint for an imperial policy to be adopted for the ‘Arab rectangle’. The Cairo […]
1921 King Faisal on being King of an Artificial Nation- Iraq
King Faisal, who was imposed by the British as King of an artificial nation – Iraq, in 1921 – wrote of his unloving subjects: “There is still – and I say this with a heart full of sorrow – no Iraqi people, but unimaginable masses of human beings devoid of any patriotic idea, imbued with […]
1920 Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India for nearly 7 years and then Foreign Secretary of Great Britain from 1919 to 1924. “As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world … if we lose it we shall drop straight away to a third rate power.” Viewing the Empire from this India-centric […]
October 14, 1919 Winston Churchill – Palestine Deception of Great Britain
“Winston Churchill wrote a memorandum for the cabinet proposing that the Ottoman Empire should not be divided among the victorious powers, but preserved intact, and placed under the authority of the League of Nations. Such a plan would bring an end to the British Mandate in Palestine, and would lead to the abandonment of the […]
1918 Oil
“As a result of the war (e.g. World War I) that smashed several great empires, the British Empire actually grew to its largest extent, acquiring remnants of the old Ottoman Empire, including Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Transjordan, as well as former German colonies in Africa and the Pacific” One other feature of Britain’s post-1918 position in […]
December 8-9 1917 British Rule of Palestine Begins
British rule in Palestine formally began on the night of December 8, Turkish troops and officials, including the Governor, Izzet Bey, evacuated the city. At dawn on December 9, the Mayor of Jerusalem, Hussein Effendi al-Husseini, set out on foot to surrender the city, accompanied by a crowd of spectators and two gendarmes carrying white […]
November 2, 1917 One Complete Palestine from the Mediterranean to Iraq
Mr. Leopold S. Amery, one of the Secretaries to the British War Cabinet in 1917 and 1918, and thereafter Under Secretary and Secretary of State for the Colonies, gave the following testimony upon this subject to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in January, 1946. “Q. (by Mr. Buxton) the Trans-Jordan was definitely in the minds […]
November 2, 1917 Prime Minister David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time of the Balfour Declaration: ‘Jerusalem was a Christmas present for the British nation.’
1917 The Last Crusade
In late 1915 Indian Army units were sent up to Tigris valley from Basra, where they were protecting Britain’s oil interests on the Persian Gulf, on the assumption that they could soon capture Baghdad and redeem the shame of Gallipoli. Instead tough Turkish resistance and the collapse of supply lines forced 13,000 troops to surrender […]