Moguls and Mandarins

INDEX

Abadan, 54, 166 nn 36, 37

Abdullah, Emir (later King) of Transjordan, 25

Abyssinian Crisis, implications for British oil planners, 148–9

Adam, Lt-Gen. Sir Ronald, and Anglo-French liaison, 1939, 159

Aden, 4, 25

Aegean Islands, 1914 crisis, 19

Afghanistan, war ‘in an Asian theatre’, 150, 154, 155; dangers of a Russian advance into, 150

Allies (see also France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece), Allied constraints on British policy in Turkey, 24, 25; Anglo-French entente, 10, 16, 68–70, 74–8, 81, 83, 84, 89; Anglo-Russian entente, 10; wartime agreement not to make a separate peace, 103; wartime British promises to, 98; occupy Constantinople, 100; powerless to enforce Treaty of Sèvres, 101; and Greek–Turkish conflict, 103, 108; strained relations ...