What has changed since ... _ Salisbury, more than Disraeli, controlled the impulses of British policy during these years, including the period 1875-80. An 1878 Salisbury-architected secret treaty established the strategic preconditions for the later British mandate over Palestine - that is, British acquisition of Egypt and Cyprus. At this time, he wrote in a letter to a British archaeologist: "We shall have to choose between allowing Russia to dominate over Syria or Mesopotamia or taking the country for ourselves." _
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