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1. The Letters That Weren’t a Lease Agreement
1915–1916: Sir Henry McMahon writes to Sharif Hussein of Mecca. Yes, he promises Arab independ…
…nry McMahon’s letter to the Sherif on October 24, 1915, to its inclusion in the boundaries of Arab independence.”
And they’ll add that Britain’…
…r, 1922) was that Palestine was excluded from the 1915 promise.
McMahon himself testified to the Peel Commission in 1937 that he intentionally …