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McMahon-Hussein correspondence

Letters of 1915 and 1916 between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca; British and Arab representatives later read them differently.

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Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca 1915–1916 Primary record 1
In 1939 the British government wrote that British and Arab representatives were unable to agree on an interpretation of the correspondence.
Sir Henry McMahon Oct 1915 Primary record 1

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British White Paper on Palestine, 1939, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1939. Primary record
the correspondence which passed between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca
in October, 1915, undertook to recognise and support Arab independence

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