在少数知道政府在中东的秘密政策的英国外交官和军人中,许多人认为这项政策是完全可耻的,是对英国尊严的侮辱。
(Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.)