Author: Joseph Maiolo, Tony Insall
Publisher/Publication: The International History Review
Volume/Issue: 34 (4)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1080/07075332.2012.690200
Abstract: Based on Foreign Office archival sources, Joseph Maiolo and Tony Insall argue that Sir Vincent H. P. Caillard, as the financial director of the arms-maker Vickers, made the services of the notorious arms trader Sir Basil Zaharoff available to the British prime ministers Asquith and Lloyd George. The authors argue that instead of pursuing his own financial and political interests, Zaharoff was a convenient tool for the British government as an agent of influence in the Levant.