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31 January 1917 Mark Sykes given a redrafted memorandum of Zionist views

The Manchester “Guardian” publishes text of Sykes-Picot Agreement, leaked by Russian communists

Mark Sykes begins an initiative due to a more interested government coalition in power, headed by Lloyd George and Balfour

Weizmann meets Mark Sykes for the first time

Sykes meet Zionist leaders

Mark Sykes given a redrafted memorandum of Zionist views

James de Rothschild meets Sykes.

Sokolov meets Georges-Picot at Mark Sykes’s residence.

Sykes, Sokolow and Weizmann meet at Sykes’s residence to review the situation.

Weizmann becomes aware of the hitherto secret Sykes-Picot agreement

Sykes cables Sokolow and Jabotinsky from Cairo

England wants suzerainty over Palestine, Sykes tells Picot

Sykes tells Weizmann to prepare diplomatic follow-up after capture of Gaza

PM DAVID LLOYD GEORGE AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY STATESMAN LORD CURZON MEET STRATEGIST AND DIPLOMAT SIR MARK SYKES ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE TO MIDDLE EAST. INSTRUCT HIM THAT NO PLEDGES SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE ARABS CONCERNING PALESTINE

Negotiations with Sykes entering final stage

Sykes introduces Sokolow to Picot

Meeting with Sykes at home of Gaster

Moses Gaster diary

Weizmann meets Sykes

Sykes-Picot Agreement- France (Francois Georges Picot) and Britain (Sir Mark Sykes) concur on division of Ottoman Empire. Eretz Israel (Palestine) to be divided with France controlling the Galilee and Britain the Haifa area with Jerusalem under international control.

Sykes writes to Samuel