Proconsul to the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox and the End of ...
John Townsend
Quoted in Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, page 162/163. Lord Birdwood, in Nuri As-Said: A Study in Arab Leadership (Cassell, London, 1959) confirms that Cox arranged a passage to Bombay for Nuri. Longrigg, op.cit. page 43. idem.