Loyalties Mesopotamia, volume 2

Arnold T. Wilson

Loyalties Mesopotamia, 1917-1920, v. 2

Oxford University

Oxford University Press
Loyalties Mesopotamia, 1917-1920, v. 2
Arnold T. Wilson

Loyalties Mesopotamia, 1917-1920
In continuation of
'Loyalties: Mesopotamia 1914 1917'

'I hate half-hearted friends. Loyalty comes before everything.'
Ye-es; but loyalties cut up against each other sometimes, you know.'
Galsworthy

'The unhappy King (Theodosius) now learnt by experience that not even
the wisest or most humane of Princes, if he be an alien in race, in
customs, and religion, can ever win the hearts of the people.'
Gregorovius, Rome in the middle Ages, i. 327

By the same author
The Persian Gulf
An historical sketch from the earliest
times to the beginning of the twentieth
century. / Out of print

A bibliography of Persia
Loyalties: Mesopotamia,
1914-1917

Loyalties Mesopotamia
Volume II
1917 - 1920
A personal and historical record by
Sir Arnold T. Wilson, M.P.
K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O.
Formerly acting civil commissioner in Mesopotamia, political
resident in the Persian Gulf and his Majesty's Consul
General for Fars, Khuzistan, & c. ...

Theognis (550 B.C.)
Quoted by Plato, Laws, i

Oxford University press
London: Humphrey Milford

First impression floe 1931
Reissued in the Oxford bookshelf October 1936

Printed in Great Britain

To

General Sir Edmund Barrow
G.C.B., G.C.S.I.
Military Secretary, India Office
1914-17

Sir Arthur Hirtzel
K.C.B.
Assistant Under-Secretary of State
India Office, 1917-21

To whose unselfish labours and wise judgement the
Mesopotamia expeditionary force, and civil administration,
and their successors, owed far more than they knew