Of how they, and their fathers, and their sons had fought behind Feisul and helped to establish him in Damascus.

Then he spoke of the British promise that the Arabs' should have a kingdom of their own, with Damascus for its capital and borders to include all the peoples of Arab blood in the Near East.

He paused for a full minute after that.

Then: "But the French are in Syria.

The French, who also promised us an Arab kingdom.