Note 19 — Chapter X · BARGAINS ARE STRUCK
Reading edition
Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, fifth series, Volume 59 (1914), pp. 2179–2189. Sir Mark Sykes (1879–1919) had traveled extensively in the Near and Far East and was the author of many books on the political and economic problems of those regions. During the Great War he was commissioned by the British Government to negotiate with France regarding the delimitation of the Allies’ interests in Mesopotamia and Syria. He was one of the authors of the Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1916.