Churchill: The Jews and Arabs in The Middle East

Lockdown Lecture Mon 24 June

SYNOPSIS

1. Recap: Balfour Letter/Hussein-McMahon Correspondence/Sykes-Picot Agreement

2. Introduction to Churchill's involvement 1921-22

3. The story begins in London in1916

4. Amery, Smuts, and rose coloured spectacles

5. Churchill's Cairo Conference March 1921

6. The die is cast

Some Books referred to

Cairo 1921 B.Faught

A Peace to end all Peace D.Fromkin

World in Torment M.Gilbert

Echoes of Struggle A.Salvatore

Winston's Folly C.Catherwood