History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)

part in the War with all his patriotism and with his idealistic faith

in the victory of justice. In 1915 he was with his regiment busy in hard training and ready for the field. He often told me how it had come to pass that the East had become his sphere of action. One day Lord Kitchener said to him: “Sykes, what are you doing in France, you must go to the East.” “What am I to do the...