Evidently a number of articles appeared in and around May 1953 in The
Jerusalem Post concerning the British soldier-spy-ornithologist
Richard Meinertzhagen.  One of the articles (author and day unknown)
was entitled "Allenby sacked Zionist Colonel".  If anyone has access
to these articles, and/or to related information, I'd be most grateful
for contact.

Good Day, briangarfield-ga.

I look forward to a new book by you. It will be as popular as The
Paladin.

For some reason, I am unable to access www.jpost.com today and was
unable to search useful archive sites.

However, I am sharing interesting discoveries many of which are
already known to you.  It is better to be excessive with the obvious
in the event that you may discover a gem among these sites.

I. Let's start with "other information" on this amazing person.  There
is a biography and the bibliography in that book should provide you
with an adequate quantity of source material, such as articles, books
and documents:

Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen 
by Peter Hathaway Capstick 


ISBN: 0312182716 
Subtitle: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen 
Author: Capstick, Peter Hathaway 
Publisher: St. Martin's Press 

Subject: Great britain Subject: Espionage, british Subject: Historical
- British Subject: Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Subject: Military Subject: Biography Edition Number: 1st ed.
Publication Date: February 1998 Binding: Trade Cloth Language: English
Illustrations: Yes Pages: 320 Dimensions: 859x589x114 106


More About this Book 
 
 
Publisher Comments: 
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen was one of those rare men whom fate
always seems to cast in the dramas that shape history. As a young
officer, he served in India and Africa during the glory days of the
British Empire, defending the crown's dominions and exploring its
darkest reaches. His exploits in the bloody colonial wars of
turn-of-the-century East Africa earned him a reputation as one of the
most fierce and ruthless soldiers in the Empire, yet it was during
those years spent roaming the silent places of the Serengeti, hunting
its game and learning its secrets, that Meinertzhagen developed a
fascination with Africa that would last a lifetime. But there were
other adventures to come, and Capstick narrates them all with his
trademark skill and wit: daring commando raids against German forces
in Africa and the Mideast during World War I, covert missions to the
USSR and Nazi Germany between the wars, work as an OSS agent during
World War II, and Meinertzhagen's ceaseless support of Israeli
nationhood are all woven together into an epic adventure, a powerful
chronicle that follows the tracks of a twentieth-century legend.*

Review: 
"This is quite a story of one of the last great figures of the
colonial age." Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/1997*

http://www.powells.com/subsection/BiographyMilitary.3.html


II. Additional sites on this adventurer.

http://hallbiographies.com/professionals_academics/683.shtml

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:WVCXbToBIFUC:www.betar.org/download/DavidKrakow/KillingHitler.PDF+%22Richard+Meinertzhagen%22+%2Bbiography&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/drought0611.html

http://www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/1998/britbird.html

Lord, John. 
Duty, Honor, Empire: The Life and Times of Colonel Richard
Meinertzhagen.
New York: Random House, 1970. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good / Good. 412 pages with several photos/maps. Biography of
British Colonel who was a friend of Lawrence of Arabia and champion of
Zionism. DJ shows some wear.
http://www.geocities.com/dbookmahn/worldwar1.htm

http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0703/jpn0703p.htm

http://whyfiles.org/084hoax/

"A detailed critical report of all these activities was submitted to
General Allenby by the political officer of the Palestine
administration, Col. Richard Meinertzhagen. Allenby told him he would
take no action."
http://www.ourjerusalem.com/series/story/battleground027.html

Meinertzhagen protested all the way to Lord Curzon in Whitehall;
Allenby threatened to resign if that protest was accepted; in the end,
Meinertzhagen was expelled from Palestine.
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2001MAY/may8.htm
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/britainriots.html

Massey, William Thomas. Allenby's Find Triumph. London: Constable,
1920.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/bibliography.html

"His Majesty’s Government, noted Colonel Meinertzhagen, the Chief
Political Officer on Allenby’s General Staff, in June 1919, did not
actually have a “clear policy”. [16] In a letter of September 26th,
1919, addressed to Cairo Headquarters, he pointed out that “the
determination of His Majesty’s Government to establish Zionism in
Palestine was also imperfectly realised” before precise instructions
were received in August 1919."
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/weinstock/07-britpol.htm

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/mufti.html

http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/diaries/d2118.htm

"Clayton's successor, appointed at Weizmann's urging, was Richard
Meinertzhagen, an ardent Zionist and an anti-semitic Christian. "I am
imbued with anti-semitic feelings," he wrote in a diary "
http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,499188,00.html

"Enter a principled, courageous British military officer, who lost his
position for his truthfulness, after he testified during a court of
inquiry into the Nebi Musa riots. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, chief
British intelligence officer in Cairo, later recorded in his diary:

"I had ample warning that these riots might occur and . . . I warned
both [General] Bols and Allenby . . . the officers of the [British]
administration are, almost without exception, anti-Zionist in their
views and are encouraging the Arabs." "
http://www.ijn.com/archive/2001arch/033001.htm

"There were two Englishmen in the Palestine administration who were
true-blue Zionists. Richard Meinertzhagen and Orde Wingate were both
outstanding military men, and lovers of the Bible, and staunch
supporters of the Zionist cause. Significantly, in Segev's account,
these two figures emerge as unhinged, tottering on the brink of
madness."
http://www.tnr.com/121100/shapira121100_print.html

"What we're trying to do is dismantle the Meinertzhagen legend to see
which
 segments of it may have some basis in reality -- for example the
"satchel
 ploy" or "haversack ruse".  Amazing how difficult it is to find any
genuine
 and reliable information about these things.  If you set aside
Meinertzhagen
 and the people to whom he told his yarns, you have nothing left"
http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/04-01/msg00200.html
http://harissa.com/D_Histoire/faysal_2.htm

Brad-ga

Dear Brian, 

You can order from an archive the specific article. It costs money, of
course. Would you like me to check the specific details?

7-24-2002

Visit the www.jpost.com website yourself.  The online archives don't
go back to 1953, but if you send them an e-mail or a letter or a phone
call, they may be able to suggest a source that has back issues so
they could find the article for you, for a small or modest fee.

SINCERELY,
4keith-ga

To:  brad-ga -- Many thanks for the wealth of websites.  I've seen
most, but not all, of them; a few are very useful indeed.  (This work,
unlike The Paladin, is nonfiction.)

To:  politicalguru-ga -- Thanks much for the info.  As mentioned
below, it's hard to order articles when the 50-year-old "morgue" in
Jerusalem isn't cross-indexed.  However it looks as if we've found a
microfiche cache at an American University library and we're in touch
with them about pawing through the reels.

To:  4keith-ga -- Thanks for the advice.  As Brad-ga found out, the
J-post website often is difficult to reach, but I've done so often
enough to find all the material they've archived online. 
Unfortunately it seems it would require something not far short of
supernatural intervention to request unknown articles from 50-year-old
issues.  But see foregoing note to Brad-ga.

Again, many thanks to you all three.

-- briangarfield-ga.