1. S. Morewood, ‘The Chiefs of Staff, the “Men on the Spot” and the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency, 1935–36’, in D. Richardson and G. Stone (eds), Decisions and Diplomacy: Essays in Twentieth Century International History (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 85–99 passim.
2. Eden to Lampson, 20 February 1936, Public Record Office, Kew [PRO], ADM 116/3588; Lampson Diary, 27 and 28 May 1936, Papers of First Baron Killearn, St Antony’s College, Middle East Centre archive, Oxford; M. Kolinsky, Britain’s War in the Middle East. Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–42 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press [now Palgrave Macmillan] 1999), pp. 29–30.
3. Succinct analyses of Britain’s Middle Eastern security concerns are: L. Pratt, East of Malta, West of Suez: Britain’s Mediterranean Crisis, 1936–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975); D. Omissi, ‘The Mediterranean and the Middle East in British Global Strategy, 1935–39’,
4. and M. J. Cohen, ‘British Strategy in the Middle East in the Wake of the Abyssinian Crisis, 1936–39’, in M. J. Cohen and M. Kolinsky (eds), Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s: Security Problems, 1935–1939 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press [now Palgrave Macmillan] 1992), pp. 3–40;
5. M. Kolinsky, Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–1935 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press [now Palgrave Macmillan] 1993), pp. 209–16; Morewood, ‘The Chiefs of Staff’, pp. 83–107.