ABSTRACT
To Clayton, to whom he was unlikely to have been insincere, Wingate had initially welcomed the appointment of McMahon, ‘From all accounts . . . a good and capable administrator1 . . . I am sure’, he said,
that Sir A. McMahon’s vast Indian experience – especially in dealing with Persian Gulf and Arabian questions – will be invaluable, and his appointment would seem to presage an attempt at co-ordinating British policy in regard to Moslems in India, Arabia and the Near East . . . his selection as the High Commissioner seems to me a particularly happy one.2
