The world has never seen such fanaticism, and the movement spreads day by day." "You don't look like a fanatic," I said, and he laughed again.
"I?
God forbid! But I am a politician; and to succeed a politician must have friends among all parties.

My one ambition is to see all Arabs united in an independent state reaching from this coast to the Persian Gulf.

To that end I devote my energy.
I use all means available--including money paid me by the French, who have no intention of permitting any such development if they can help it." "And the British ?" "For the present we must make use of them also.

But their yoke must go, eventually." "Then if America had accepted the Near East mandate, you would have used us in the same way ?" "Certainly.

That would have been the easiest way, because America understands little or nothing of our politics.