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1. Sherif Feisal, accompanied by Lieutenant-
'-olonel i. a .Lawrence, visited the India Office on
Friday the ?7th December, 1916, and was entertained
at tea by the Secretary of State. During some
preliminary oonrereation in Mr. Montagu*e room,
in which only the Secretary of State, Sir T.
Holdernesa and Sir J. Dunlop-Sraith took part, the
Sherif dwelt upon the solidarity of the Arab movement
and the essential unity of the Arab race, A more
general discussion followed at which Lord Islirurton.
Sir A. Hirtzel, Sir Hamilton Grant, and Mr. Shuckbur^i
were present in addition to those already n^med.
Colonel Lawrence interpreted throu^Jiout for Sherif
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Feisal.
Bin Sand, The Sherif discuseed the
relations between Bin Saud f Emir of Kejd t and the
Hejaz authorities. He explained the nature of the
Wahabi moTement, of which Bin Saud is the figure-head
and the leading spirit. From the point of view of
doctrine, he has no objection whatever to Wahabism.
But it is essentially a militant creed, and is being
made to serve political ends. The /ahabis are
intolerant of anybody and everything outside their own
sect. If, for example, they rained possession of the
Holy Places, they would exclude all non- Tkhabis from
the pil^rima^e. So Ion# as Wahabisrn was confined to
Nejd,