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Foot got his first taste of this process as a junior administrator in the seething British mandate of Palestine in 1929. "From the Arabs I learnt that a governor should be a servant and not a master," he says. "I was never in any doubt that they regarded me as an inferior." In 1937, when the Arabs rebelled against Jewish immigration and British rule, Foot "often idly wished to be on their side of the barricades instead of on the side of authority." Once, acting on an informer's tip, he pursued a rebel terrorist chief to a high...