[21] Quoted from the official text as given in E. E. Robinson and V. J. West, The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913–1917 (New York, 1917), pp. 403–405.
[22] The New York Times, November 13, 1917.
[23] Supra, p. 285.
[24] Baker, op. cit., Volume I, Chapter IV, contains an excellent account of the inter-Allied negotiations of 1916–1917 regarding Asiatic Turkey, based upon the private papers of Woodrow Wilson. Cf., also, Full Texts of the Secret Treaties as Revealed at Petrograd.
[25] The Treaty provided that the Bagdad Railway should not be extended southward from Mosul or northward from Samarra without the express consent of both France and Great Britain and in no case before the construction of a railway from Bagdad to Aleppo via the Euphrates Valley—the purpose being, as far as possible, to develop southern Mesopotamia and the Syrian coast rather than Kurdistan. By a subsequent agreement of December, 1918, between Messrs. Lloyd George and Clémenceau, Mosul was transferred to Great Britain.
[26] W. L. Westermann, “The Armenian Problem and the Disruption of Turkey,” in What Really Happened at Paris—The Story of the Peace Conference, 1918–1919, by American Delegates, edited by E. M. House and C. Seymour (New York, 1921), pp. 176–203. Cf. p. 183.
[27] The text of the Sykes-Picot Treaty was first published by The Manchester Guardian, January 8, 1920, and was reprinted in Current History, Volume XI (1920), pp. 339–341. Cf., also, Bowman, The New World, pp. 100–104; Baker, op. cit., pp. 67–69.
[28] Baker, op. cit., pp. 68–70. The negotiations concerning the St. Jean de Maurienne Agreement extended from the autumn of 1916 to August, 1917. The agreement appears to have been negotiated with the Italians by Mr. Lloyd George, in April, 1917, while Mr. Balfour was in America with the British Mission. It was amended in August, as a result of the insistence of the Italians that they had not received an adequate share of the spoils.
[29] President Wilson’s address to a joint session of the Congress of the United States, January 8, 1918, setting forth the famous Fourteen Points of a durable peace. Quoted from James Brown Scott, President Wilson’s Foreign Policy (New York, 1918), pp. 354–363.
[30] Regarding General Maude’s brilliant campaign in Mesopotamia, cf.: Dane, op. cit., Volume II, Chapters II, III, XII; E. F. Eagan, The War in the Cradle of the World (London, 1918); Kermit Roosevelt, War in the Garden of Eden (New York, 1919); Sir Charles Collwell, Life of Sir Stanley Maude (London, 1920); E. Betts, The Bagging of Bagdad (London, 1920); E. Candler, The Long Road to Bagdad (London, 1920); C. Cato (pseudonym), The Navy in Mesopotamia (London, 1917); F. Maurice, “The Mesopotamian Campaign,” in Asia, Volume 18 (New York, 1918), pp. 933–936.