The Zionists are in Jerusalem, working like beavers, and the British are getting ready to pull out as much as possible and leave the Zionists to do their own worrying.

Mesopotamia is in a state of more or less anarchy.
Egypt is like a hot-box full of explosive--may go off any minute.
The Arabs would like to challenge the world to mortal combat, and then fight one another while the rest of the world pays the bill--" "And you ?" "The French, for instance.

Their army is weak at the moment.
They've neither men nor money--only a hunger to own Syria.

They don't play what the English call 'on side.' They play a mean game.

The French General Staff figure that if Feisul should attack them now he might beat them.